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bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:46:55 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <warrenharris@google.com>, <7943@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:50:43 -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.
Colors can be specified by their names in Emacs, not just by their RGB
values. 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.
- 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