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| author | mitchell <unknown> | 2020-08-23 00:17:48 -0400 |
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| committer | mitchell <unknown> | 2020-08-23 00:17:48 -0400 |
| commit | 8fb21d5471a9c50151a4c7c7fde35edf922e4daf (patch) | |
| tree | 5f194e50e5a97846d6c46d3264070415f276d596 /lexlua/lexer.lua | |
| parent | 7e647657b0f95a4756b8aa714b0b3e4295272b81 (diff) | |
| download | scintilla-mirror-8fb21d5471a9c50151a4c7c7fde35edf922e4daf.tar.gz | |
lexlua: Documented color restrictions for the curses platform.
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lexlua/lexer.lua b/lexlua/lexer.lua index 299776297..2f91b0112 100644 --- a/lexlua/lexer.lua +++ b/lexlua/lexer.lua @@ -902,8 +902,20 @@ local function searchpath(name, path) end --- --- Map of color names strings to color values in `0xBBGGRR` or `"#RRGGBB"` +-- Map of color name strings to color values in `0xBBGGRR` or `"#RRGGBB"` -- format. +-- Note: for applications running within a terminal emulator, only 16 color +-- values are recognized, regardless of how many colors a user's terminal +-- actually supports. (A terminal emulator's settings determines how to actually +-- display these recognized color values, which may end up being mapped to a +-- completely different color set.) In order to use the light variant of a +-- color, some terminals require a style's `bold` attribute must be set along +-- with that normal color. Recognized color values are black (0x000000), red +-- (0x000080), green (0x008000), yellow (0x008080), blue (0x800000), magenta +-- (0x800080), cyan (0x808000), white (0xC0C0C0), light black (0x404040), light +-- red (0x0000FF), light green (0x00FF00), light yellow (0x00FFFF), light blue +-- (0xFF0000), light magenta (0xFF00FF), light cyan (0xFFFF00), and light white +-- (0xFFFFFF). -- @name colors -- @class table M.colors = setmetatable({}, { |