From cb823f978e9230ee39a797679a95e68795f5300d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bdn Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:41:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add instructions to enable true color support to README.md --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4d897ce28..a63e74fe1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ If you open micro and it doesn't seem like syntax highlighting is working, this you are using a terminal which does not support 256 color mode. Try changing the color scheme to `simple` by pressing Ctrl-e in micro and typing `set colorscheme simple`. +Many modern terminal emulators (such as [Kitty](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) and [Alacritty](https://alacritty.org/)) support true color, which allows the use of over 16 million colors using RGB/HEX values. To enable true color support in micro, set the environment variable `MICRO_TRUECOLOR=1`, then choose a color scheme that supports true color. True color schemes have names that end with `-tc` (such as `dracula-tc`). + If you are using the default Ubuntu terminal, to enable 256 make sure your `TERM` variable is set to `xterm-256color`.