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henrebotha

opened on Feb 13, 2025

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It appears src either uses no colours (NO_COLOR=1), or 256 colours. This means that if the colours chosen for 256-colour mode are hard to read, I have no choice but to turn colour off entirely and lose some valuable readability-enhancing information in the output.

I would really appreciate an option to stick to 16 colours (4-bit colour), so that src only uses colours defined by my terminal theme.

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1. linear commented on Feb 13, 2025

   

   linearBot

   on Feb 13, 2025 – with Linear

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   OSS-24166 No support for 16 colours
2. jojosenthusiast commented on Jun 29, 2026

   

   jojosenthusiast

   on Jun 29, 2026

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   I'm interested in picking this up. Before opening a PR, would you prefer 16-colour support to be exposed as an explicit flag (for example alongside the existing colour mode handling), an environment/config option, or something else?

   The minimal change I would aim for is to keep current defaults unchanged and add a user-selected 4-bit/16-colour mode, with tests around the colour-mode selection path.
3. henrebotha commented on Jun 29, 2026

   

   henrebotha

   on Jun 29, 2026

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   I would prefer this as a config option, as I'm unlikely to want to change it on a per-invocation basis.

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