Where all the colors?

[itchyny]

Where all the colors?

[itchyny]

The bed command does not support this kind of coloring because it makes difficult to make it visible for both light and dark terminals. The issue report is unclear for what is expected, so closing.

[abitrolly]

@itchyny how does vim and oh-my-zsh handle this then? Do you use any syntax highlighting in terminal?

[itchyny]

Some terminal tools have color themes feature, but I don't implement it in the bed command because that's not what I want to put effort to. Actually bed already uses light green color but I should minimize the use of colors, it is a thorny road.

[abitrolly]

Why not to use "logical" color which can be painted according to palette specified in command line param?

[itchyny]

Your comments so far do not describe how you expect the hexes to be colored, what you need them for. In any cases, my current answer is I don't implement such colors because I don't need them and I want to keep the command simple as it is. If you want such colors, use different tools, thanks.

[abitrolly]

@itchyny you didn't answer why you are not using discolored terminal either. :D

If you take a look at hexedit output, the coloring scheme separates hexes into four zones.

1. (red) 00 - zeroes
2. (grn) 01-1F - unprintable control characters
3. (wht) 20-7F - lower, safe part of ASCII table
4. (blu) 80-FF - higher part of ASCII table

The other editor uses colors to segment working areas.