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bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window


From: Warren Harris
Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:46:57 -0800

All I can say is the current behavior is quite annoying when more than 8 colors are available. Many colors have very low contrast against the grey90 background, and there's no way I can see to set the background to brightwhite. This forces me to set my TERM so that all I get is black and white, which can also be hard on the eyes. 

I guess I can try and hack my xterm.el, but it definitely seems like a bug to me.


On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <7943@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:18:54 -0800
>
> >       ("white"          7 (229 229 229))    ; gray90
> >       ("brightwhite"   15 (255 255 255)))   ; white
> >
> > As you see, what is called "white" in list-colors-display is actually
> > gray90....  This definition is used to leave FFFFFF for brightwhite
>
> Wow.  I won't presume to suggest that this is misguided, but I can't help but
> wonder why.  Why wouldn't white be called "white" and gray90 be called "gray90"
> or "off-white" or some such?

For compatibility with 8-color text terminals that cannot produce the
bright colors, IIRC.

Some text terminals can produce bright white by combining white with
another text attribute (bold, if I'm not mistaken).  Having 8-color
terminals without "white" would be confusing.

We do use "gray" on terminals that don't have this historical
precedent, see w32console.el, for example.


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