URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68483>
Summary: Wrong documentation for HTML color specification in
string escapes
Group: GNU Screen
Submitter: rlaboiss
Submitted: Sun 28 Jun 2026 08:48:17 AM UTC
Category: Documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Unlocked
Release: 5.0.1
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: None
Work Required: None
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Date: Sun 28 Jun 2026 08:48:17 AM UTC By: Rafael Laboissière <rlaboiss>
The info documentation states that “Colors are coded as 0-7 for basic ANSI,
0-255 for 256 color mode, or for truecolor, either a hexadecimal code starting
with x, or HTML notation as either 3 or 6 hexadecimal digits.”
However, this setting does not work for me:
truecolor on
hardstatus string "%{#F00;#0AA}%t"
It yields black text on a dark blue background.
On the other hand, this works as expected (red text on light blue
background):
truecolor on
hardstatus string "%{+b#FF0000;#00AAAA}%t"
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