Hi,

First off, there is no problem or patch here, but I want to make the
following findable in the ports@ archive for anyone not understanding
why not all 256 colours are shown in rxvt-unicode--everything.

Even though 256 colours are always reported, only 88 colours are
presented when using rxvt-unicode--everything.  The solution was
installing the non-flavoured rxvt-unicode port.

The 'everything' flavour has --enable-everything, which enables most
non-multichoice options.  The configure option --enable-256-color is one
of the exceptions.  I was surprised by this, but memory use and
compatibility are reasons for it.

In the port that option is enabled for the vanilla flavour only.  It is
extremely useful that the option is enabled for at least one flavour,
because one will quickly find out what's going on by looking at the
port's Makefile.

One could debate if such exception options should be included in the
default (or any) flavour, but I think this has been thought through
already.  The port is okay with me as it is.  This was just FYI.

You can use this to test colours (after fixing the shebang):

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/HaleTom/89ffe32783f89f403bba96bd7bcd1263/raw/e50a28ec54188d2413518788de6c6367ffcea4f7/print256colours.sh

To Stuart, thank you for maintaining this port.

 Marco

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