On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Irving Rabin <irving@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks Jeff, my problem has been resolved by Samuel Lijin. > My terminal settings didn't set bold which remained white. I fixed it > and my problem was gone! Specifically, Irving's terminal rendered bold text as white. No bug here :) > This issue is closed. Is there any way to retire it? That's pretty much it. > Irving Rabin > Software Developer @Edmodo > 408-242-1299 > > > > > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:33:31AM -0700, Irving Rabin wrote: > > > >> Specifically, if the field is supposed to be white, it doesn't mean it > >> should be literally 0xFFFFFF. It should be the color that I have > >> configured as White color for my console emulator. > >> > >> I like light-screen terminals, and I configure my ANSI colors in the > >> way that they are clearly visible on the background and clearly > >> distinct between themselves. In my terminal settings background is > >> light-yellow, Black is black, Yellow is brown, Red is dark red, > >> Magenta is purple and White is dark gray. I set it once and I can use > >> it everywhere - all Unix commands work correctly, I can edit > >> highlighted source code in Vim, and all my color settings are > >> respected. > > > > Git outputs ANSI color codes, which are interpreted by your terminal. > > You _can_ configure Git to send 24-bit color codes if your terminal > > supports it, but by default it uses the traditional set of limited color > > and attribute codes. > > > > What does running the following snippet in your shell look like? > > > > -- >8 -- > > > > while read name code; do > > printf '\033[%sm%s\033[m\n' "$code" "$name" > > done <<-\EOF > > normal > > bold 1 > > red 31 > > green 32 > > yellow 33 > > blue 34 > > magenta 35 > > cyan 36 > > bold-red 1;31 > > bold-green 1;32 > > bold-yellow 1;33 > > bold-blue 1;34 > > bold-magenta 1;35 > > bold-cyan 1;36 > > EOF > > > > -- 8< -- > > > > If any of the colors are not what you expect, is there a pattern? E.g., > > I wouldn't be surprised if "bold" shows up as bright white. In many > > modern terminal emulators, the bold variants need to be configured > > separately from the non-bold ones, and default to lighter variants of > > their non-bold counterparts. The solution there would be to check your > > terminal emulator config. > > > > If it does all look as you'd expect, try adding "| less -R" to the end of > > the "done <<-\EOF" line. Most of Git's output goes through that pager > > (though I _think_ it's mostly just passing through the ANSI codes, so it > > wouldn't have any effect). > > > > -Peff