Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number)

[Jan D.]

> "Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > >   (x-display-color-cells) => 64
> > >
> > > I noticed because of the recent change in font-lock.el -- since
> > > 64 < 88 I now get really ugly font-lock colours.
> >
> > This function does not look to have been changed for a very long time.
> > It basically just returns
> > DisplayCells (dpyinfo->display,
> >                XScreenNumberOfScreen (dpyinfo->screen))
> >
> > Have you changed X server lately?
>
> No.  `x-display-color-cells' has probably always returned 64 (it also
> does that in Emacs 21.3), but I guess it just wasn't used anywhere
> important before now.

Well, looking at your xdpyinfo, the only thing it can return is 64.
But this is not the problem you have.  What you are saying is that
64 works fine as a value for min-colors in font-lock.el instead of
88.  Your problem has nothing to do with x-display-color-cells.

88 is a funny value, I don't know how that value was reached, Cc:ing
emacs-devel to see if anybody can help.

        Jan D.