That is, notes about terminals, and terminal emulators in Linux or Mac or wherever.

Resources

Many good suggestions for interesting terminal color enhancements

Problems With Man Pages

Some people like to use a white background. When using man pages, this can cause a lot of the text to be invisible.

Man uses less by default so see next section.

Problems with less

Here is a very complete discussion of that problem.

Note man tput is interesting.

Terminal Colors

Terminal colortest.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Take from:
# http://misc.flogisoft.com/bash/tip_colors_and_formatting

for clbg in {40..47} {100..107} 49 ; do
    #Foreground
    for clfg in {30..37} {90..97} 39 ; do
        #Formatting
        for attr in 0 1 2 4 5 7 ; do
            #Print the result
            echo -en "\e[${attr};${clbg};${clfg}m ^[${attr};${clbg};${clfg}m \e[0m"
        done
        echo #Newline
    done
done

for fgbg in 38 48 ; do #Foreground/Background
    for color in {0..256} ; do #Colors
        #Display the color
        echo -en "\e[${fgbg};5;${color}m ${color}\t\e[0m"
        #Display 10 colors per lines
        if [ $((($color + 1) % 10)) == 0 ] ; then
            echo #New line
        fi
    done
    echo #New line
done

exit 0