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@@ -178,7 +178,11 @@ There is also a numerical interface to colors, which takes an integer from If some color is unsupported (for instance, if only the normal colors are available, not the bright ones), trying to use it will, on most terminals, have -no effect: the foreground and background colors will stay as they were. +no effect: the foreground and background colors will stay as they were. You can +get fancy and do different things depending on the supported colors by checking +`number_of_colors`_. + +.. _`number_of_colors`: http://packages.python.org/blessings/#blessings.Terminal.number_of_colors Compound Formatting ------------------- @@ -341,13 +345,14 @@ Version History supports. * Made ``color(n)`` and ``on_color(n)`` callable to wrap a string, like the named colors can. Also, make them both fall back to the ``setf`` and - ``setb`` capabilities if the ANSI ``setaf`` and ``setab`` aren't available. + ``setb`` capabilities (like the named colors do) if the ANSI ``setaf`` and + ``setab`` aren't available. * Allow ``color`` attr to act as an unparametrized string, not just a callable. * Make ``height`` and ``width`` examine any passed-in stream before falling - back to stdout. (This rarely if ever affects its actual behavior; it's mostly + back to stdout. (This rarely if ever affects actual behavior; it's mostly philosophical.) - * Make caching more efficient. + * Make caching simpler and slightly more efficient. * Get rid of a reference cycle between Terminals and FormattingStrings. * Update docs to reflect that terminal addressing (as in ``location()``) is 0-based. |