Colors

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Help Keywords : Colors Colours Ansi.
Help Category : Features.
Related Helps : Colorset, Rawcolors, Xterm, Blindmode.
Last Updated  : 2024-02-17 14:47:49.
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Syntax:  color        - toggles current setting.
         color on/off - explicitly set color to on or off.

The 'color' command turns on/off MUD output coloring.  'ansi' is an alias
for 'color'.

The ANSI standard allows for 15 common colors that appear everywhere in
Aardwolf.  They are divided into normal and bright colors.

   @b / @B blue / bblue           @c / @C cyan / bcyan
   @r / @R red / bred             @m / @M magenta / bmagenta
   @g / @G green / bgreen         @w / @W white / bwhite
   @y / @Y yellow / byellow            @D gray (bright black)

Grey/bright black is not visible on all connections; use the 'seegray'
toggle to enable/disable seeing bright black.  There is no 'dark black'.

To use color codes in your title, communication, or whatever else you
write, prefix the color with '@' followed by the letter code.

For example, '@WColor @Gis @mCool.@w' will look like
              Color is Cool.

It may help to END A SEGMENT OF COLORED TEXT WITH @w.  This changes
the color of the text to low white.

To display an @ symbol, use @@.  @- may be used to display a tilde, though
the MUD no longer processes them and thus the standard tilde may be used.

There are additional "color" codes that can be used to show different
content to players with 'blindmode' enabled or disabled. See 'help
blindmode' for more information on these.

Aardwolf allows you to customize your own independent color scheme for most
types of MUD output.  Type 'help colorset' to read about this feature.  The
syntax 'colorset colors' will display all 15 colors and their color codes
similar to the list above.

Aardwolf also supports xterm 256 color mode- see 'help xterm' for more
information.

Channels (discluding tells and echos) may have their color scheme returned
to the channel's default color for all users after a color change has been
displayed. To do this, simply use $C at the point where you would like to
resume the channel's regular color. Note that it is difficult to actually
display $C itself on a channel, e.g., for MUSHclient or CMUD a user can
type $@ C. Also note that $C does not work in the note editor.
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