respect ~/.dircolors

[Kidlike]

I tried ls_extended but it seems that it doesn't respect my ~/.dircolors.

Am I missing something or is this not implemented ?

Would it be difficult to implement ?

Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/TNpbWJC.png

[Electrux]

It is not implemented yet. Although it might not be that difficult. I have never used ~/.dircolors myself so idk how it works. Do you mind posting that file?
Also, the alignment in the screenshot doesn't seem correct. Any idea why? Did u change code?

[Kidlike]

Here's the content of ~/.dircolors:

https://github.com/Kidlike/dircolors-zenburn/blob/55c1dee1e532c7469ffea7c4fc9619fc8c555d89/dircolors

(It should work out of the box)

I haven't changed any code.

But I have a somewhat complicated setup: https://github.com/Kidlike/dotfiles#terminal

tilda -> tmux -> xterm-256color -> bash

[Electrux]

Is the Term section required for coloring too? what does that do?

And i am guessing that alignment is incorrect due to lack of icon fonts perhaps 🤔

[Kidlike]

I think the TERM section is supported TERMs.

Hm... possibly because of Font. I'm using Source Code Pro.

[Kidlike]

I see now that nerd-fonts supports Source Code Pro as well, so I will give it a go. :)

[Kidlike]

I think the alignment issue was related to the fonts. After switching to nerd-fonts the alignment looks correct.
https://i.imgur.com/SyXwXqa.png

[Electrux]

ok yea, that's nice to know. Thanks :)

[Kidlike]

Any hope for ~/.dircolors ? :)

[Electrux]

yea i am sorry i haven't the time to implement it right now but i hope to do that soon :) thanks 👍

[Kidlike]

cool, I was just wandering where this stands. cheers ! :)

[Electrux]

hey can you, by any chance give me a brief explanation of the colors in this file and their conversion to the escape code of terminal? If you can that would be much appreciated :)

[Kidlike]

I think all numbers in this file come from ansi escape codes and colors.

The values are ; separated, and usually look like this (although number of attributes and order is not important).
attribute ; text-color -> 00;38;5;109
or
background-color; text-color -> 48;5;180;38;5;234

As per the above link, codes 38 and 48 are foreground/background setters respectively.
The format of the file isn't great, as it uses the same delimiter for both "parameters" and multiple attributes. e.g. 48;5;180 sets the background color to 180 and 38;5;234 sets the foreground color to 234.
I don't know what this 5 is, but it looks like it's required if you want 256-color.

There's some info here too : https://linux.die.net/man/5/dir_colors
mostly useful about the special terms like CHR, SOCK, TERM, etc.