From 45ccfa3f4c897dd15e839046f33d07cc482ff547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 01:38:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added colors() function to .zshrc; this gives you some
 information about terminal colors...

---
 .zshrc | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.zshrc b/.zshrc
index 0bec86cc..6cadace1 100644
--- a/.zshrc
+++ b/.zshrc
@@ -126,6 +126,51 @@ function home() {
     esac
 }
 
+# This function shows some examples of shell colorizing and the color codes.
+# Nothing special... ;)
+# I got the commands from:
+# http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5879/show-numerical-values-for-each-of-the-256-colors-in-bash
+function colors() {
+    case $1 in
+        1)
+            for x in 0 1 4 5 7 8; do
+                for i in `seq 30 37`; do
+                    for a in `seq 40 47`; do
+                        echo -ne "\e[$x;$i;$a""m\\\e[$x;$i;$a""m\e[0;37;40m ";
+                    done;
+                echo;
+                done;
+            done;
+            echo "";
+            ;;
+        2)
+            for i in {0..255}; do
+                echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m\\\e[38;05;${i}m";
+            done | column -c 80 -s '  ';
+            echo -e "\e[m"
+            ;;
+        3)
+            for i in {0..255}; do echo -e "\e[38;05;${i}m${i}"; done | column -c 80 -s ' '; echo -e "\e[m"
+            ;;
+        4)
+            for code in {0..255}; do echo -en "\e[38;05;${code}m $code"; done
+            ;;
+        5)
+            for line in {0..5}; do
+                for col in {0..39}; do
+                    code=$(( $col * 6 + $line + 16 ));
+                    printf $'\e[38;05;%dm %03d' $code $code;
+                done;
+                echo;
+            done
+            ;;
+        *)
+            echo "command not found!"
+            echo ""
+            ;;
+    esac
+}
+
 # Some aliases
 alias ..='cd ..'
 alias ...='cd ../..'