Documentation - task-color.5

- Added new color tutorial man page.
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Paul Beckingham 2010-01-20 20:45:17 -05:00
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.TP
.B Q: How do I know whether my terminal support 256 colors?
The easiest way is to just try it! With task 1.9 or later, you simply run
You will need to make sure your TERM environment variable is set to xterm-color,
otherwise the easiest way is to just try it! With task 1.9 or later, you simply
run
$ task color
and a full color palette is displayed, if you look at it and see lots of
different colors, then your terminal supports 256 colors. If you see only
8 or 16 colors, many of them repeated, with blank areas then your terminal
does not support 256 colors. xterm does. iTerm does.
and a full color palette is displayed. If you see only 8 or 16 colors, perhaps
with those colors repeated, then your terminal does not support 256 colors.
We have had success with xterm, and iTerm for the Mac.
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.B Q: How do I make use of all these colors?
See the task-color(5) man page for an in-depth explanation of the task color
rules.
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.B Q: How can I make task put the command in the terminal window title?
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.BR task(1),
.BR taskrc(5),
.BR task-tutorial(5)
.BR task-color(5)
For more information regarding task, the following may be referenced: