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Re: KDE Konsole Shows Colours

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 01:50 this Thursday (GMT):
> I noticed this happening a while back, but it took a couple of months
> to figure out what was going on.
>
> It appears Konsole has this (undocumented?) feature where, if you
> hover over the name of a colour in a terminal session, it will
> helpfully pop up this square showing what the colour looks like.
>
> The colour names come from the traditional X11 set in
> /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt, with limits: it only looks at single-word
> names, and does not match names with numeric suffixes. Thus,
> “darkmagenta” will work (case-insensitive match against
> “DarkMagenta”), while “dark magenta” only matches the “magenta” part,
> and “magenta1” is not recognized at all.
>
> It will also recognize a sequence of 3 or 6 hex digits preceded by “#”
> -- “#rgb” or “#rrggbb”, as commonly used in HTML. Just tried 8 hex
> digits -- “#rrggbbaa” with alpha transparency -- and that works too.
>
> This feature has been around for a couple of years, that I know of.


Interesting, though I probably won't use it.
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