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@@ -77,12 +77,43 @@ as *K*, *M*, and *G* for power-of-10 based (e.g. *1K* is 1000 bytes).
-c nnnnn
Set the colors to use. Must be 2 to 5 digits, from 0 to 7. These are
- standard ANSI colors. The first 2 are the alternating colors for
- normal characters, the 3rd and 4th (optional) are the alternating color for non-printable
+ standard ANSI colors:
+
+ 0
+ black
+
+ 1
+ red
+
+ 2
+ green
+
+ 3
+ yellow
+
+ 4
+ blue
+
+ 5
+ purple
+
+ 6
+ cyan
+
+ 7
+ white
+
+ The first 2 digits are the alternating colors for
+ normal characters, the 3rd and 4th (optional) are the alternating colors for non-printable
and space characters, and the 5th (optional) is for invalid UTF-8
sequences. Default: **23561**. This option also disables a prior **-m**
option.
+ Note that the default color set doesn't include white or black:
+ usually one of these is the terminal's background
+ color. Also, it avoids blue, because blue text is hard to read on
+ many terminals.
+
.. colors (2 to 5 digits, 0 to 7).
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