$Id$ o Colour does not work with all backends and all terminals. I tested many terminal emulators and tried to summarise which combinations worked properly and which ones did not. o In an XTerm terminal, the following shell commands output all possible foreground/background combinations: for fgpre in "" '\e[0;1m'; do for fg in 0 4 2 6 1 5 3 7; do for bgpre in 4 10; do echo -ne "$fgpre"'\e[3'$fg'm' for bg in 0 4 2 6 1 5 3 7; do echo -ne '\e['$bgpre$bg'm# '; done echo -ne '\e[0;0m ' done echo '' done; echo ''; done Successfully tested o ncurses: * bright combinations work in the following terminals: - Linux console (TERM=linux) - pterm (TERM=xterm) * bright text on bright background is rendered as bright text on normal background in the following terminals: - xterm (TERM=xterm) - gnome-terminal (TERM=xterm) o S-Lang: o MS-DOS: all bright colours, bright backgrounds, and bright combinations work using .