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ogham / exa

A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
https://the.exa.website/
MIT License
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Colours too "dark" #1092

Open Chiggy-Playz opened 2 years ago

Chiggy-Playz commented 2 years ago

Hi. I installed exa on my rpi running raspbian via apt install exa. I just wanted to know if the default colour scheme is supposed to be like this.

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Its just too dark imo. Is this normal? I am using windows terminal to connect to my pi via ssh I really liked it the way its shown in the screenshot on the readme :)

ddaletski commented 2 years ago

Short answer: It is as it is, and it's normal

Long answer: It highly depends on your terminal color scheme. Exa, just like any CLI tool, doesn't render colors itself, it just uses ANSI color codes to mainly differentiate different parts of text. The terminal GUI is responsible for transforming the text with those color codes into the colored text. You can easily find a color scheme, which will draw exactly the same exa output, with red instead of blue. You can play with different schemes here and install one of those if you like some. P.S.: exa could use exactly the same color codes as ls --color=auto does, but it's just a matter of taste. Probably, exa developers used different color scheme in which current exa output looked better than the one from the ls