Re: [PATCH] Support 24-bit terminal colors.

[Clément Pit--Claudel]

On 2016-08-30 18:37, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On 08/30/2016 03:07 PM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
>> On 2016-08-30 17:03, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>>> On 08/30/2016 01:55 PM, Rami Ylimäki wrote:
>>>> From: Rami Ylimäki <address@hidden>
>>>>
>>>> Based on previous work by Rüdiger Sonderfeld, Christian Hopps and
>>>> Charles Strahan.
>>>>
>>>> Currently it's not possible to detect whether terminal supports
>>>> 24-bit colors.
>>>
>>> Why did we decide to stop using terminfo as intended? Why did we stop
>>> supporting terminal capability inspection via control codes? We
>>> solved this problem in the god damn 1980s. Why are we back to
>>> specifying terminal characteristics manually?
>>
>> Hey Daniel,
>>
>> I don't understand your email. Are you saying that (1) Emacs is already not 
>> doing the right thing, and this patch is continuing in this tradition, or 
>> that (2) the world is a sad place, because the solution that was found in 
>> the 80s wasn't extended to cover 24bit colors, hence the need for this 
>> patch, or that (3) this patch is going in the wrong direction, because Emacs 
>> is doing things right already and this patch should use the existing 
>> facilities instead of whatever it does as submitted, or (4) something else?
>>
>> I'm not familiar with capability inspection, so apologies if the meaning was 
>> clear for people with more background on this.
>> Clément.
>>
> 
> I'm annoyed that there are no common means for detection. I wonder whether 
> Emacs can be a forcing function here. If I had it my way,
> I'd just tell terminal emulator authors that Emacs will support their
> 24-bit-color modes as soon as there's a way to detect them and not before.

Thanks a lot for clarifying.

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