Is it possible to use bright colors variants in syntax definitions?

[hovsater]

The documentation show that you can set black, red, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white as well as bold, underline and reverse. Is it possible to combine these, e.g, bold blue?

[adsr]

Yes, you can bitwise-or the flags.

    fg,bg        0=default     1=black       2=red         3=green
                 4=yellow      5=blue        6=magenta     7=cyan
                 8=white       256=bold      512=underline 1024=reverse

Bold and blue would be 256 + 5 = 261. Demo:

echo -en 'normal_blue\nbold_blue\n' | mle -N -S 'syn_test,.*,4,0' -s 'normal_blue,,5,0' -s 'bold_blue,,261,0' -y syn_test -H0

[hovsater]

Sweet, I'll probably add that to the man page then. 🙂