sharkdp/pastel

support all named colors from X11 rgb.txt

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#138 opened on May 10, 2021

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Description

Just came across this nice program, only to realize that it is missing many named colors:

$ pastel color red3
[pastel error]: Could not parse color 'red3'

Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names and https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/rgb/tree/rgb.txt .

The few clashing color names could be resolved by using a x11- prefix like in x11-gray.

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Implement parsing of X11 color names from the rgb.txt file and add them to the color database. Handle conflicting names with an 'x11 ' prefix.
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