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bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:57:31 -0800 |
> > > For compatibility with 8-color text terminals that cannot
> > > produce the bright colors, IIRC.
> >
> > My wondering is only about the _names_. Why call a dark or
> > dim red "red" or call a light gray "white"?
>
> Because it would be confusing not to have a white color.
You mean a color named "white" don't you? You've already said that such
terminals do not really have a white color.
Anyway, why? Why would it be confusing to not have a color named "white" - if
there is in fact no white color?
Why wouldn't it be clearer to have only a color named "off white" (or "dirty
white" or ...) if the only available whitish color is off white?
> Colors can be specified by their names in Emacs, not just by their RGB
> values.
Precisely. And color names are somewhat conventional. Using the name "white"
for the color with RGB code FFFFFFFFF (any number 3*N of F's) is as conventional
as you can get. Using the same name for any other color is quite
unconventional.
> By the time tty colors were added to Emacs, the names of the
> 8 ANSI colors supported by text terminals were already "common
> knowledge", so we kept them.
Times change. History conflicts with convention sometimes.
Anyway, as I said, you'll get no complaint from me about it. Call the color
white "black" if you like.
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
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- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
- Message not available
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/13
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/13
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13