Re: emacs, true color and iterm2

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Tho, obviously, for 2bit color support, we won't will want to have
>> ^                      ^^^^^
>> 24                     [delete]
>> 
>> > support for tty colors without going through some approximation table.
> Now I completely misunderstand what you mean by that, and why.

AFAIK, currently, color support in a tty goes through an approximation
step which choose the closest color number to use among the N colors
supported by the tty.

We'll want to skip this step if the terminal supports 24bit colors,
since the table would be both huge (16M entries) and useless.


        Stefan