From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:50:43 -0800 Message-ID: <99CE0660F55F487B85C9DA6764F65CC6@us.oracle.com> References: <20110130185857.ABE7116C28C@purefun.sfo.corp.google.com> <83d3lwrunk.fsf@gnu.org> <837hc4rqpk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299967629 4898 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2011 22:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: warrenharris@google.com, 7943@debbugs.gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 23:07:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyWxj-00039X-AM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:07:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyWxi-0000rw-Fg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54713 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyWxd-0000rg-NP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyWxc-0000fa-Qu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:06:57 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyWxc-0000fT-OE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:06:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyWiD-0005em-Qt; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:51:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7943 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7943-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7943.129996665621730 (code B ref 7943); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7943) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2011 21:50:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyWi7-0005eR-1y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:50:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyWi5-0005eG-PC for 7943@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:50:54 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id p2CLokYG021797 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:50:47 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id p2CLoj9J022981 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:50:46 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt006.oracle.com (abhmt006.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id p2CLojR5014505; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:50:45 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.53.173) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:50:45 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <837hc4rqpk.fsf@gnu.org> Thread-Index: Acvg+cn1+QNpSjMnRC6ys72ZTiZo9gABSwjg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 X-Source-IP: acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4D7BEAB6.0036,ss=1,fgs=0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:51:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44951 Archived-At: > 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"? Which colors the terminal can produce is one thing; what we call them is another - no? > Some text terminals can produce bright white by combining white with > another text attribute (bold, if I'm not mistaken). Having 8-color > terminals without "white" would be confusing. If you say so. But isn't it also confusing that we call gray "white"? > We do use "gray" on terminals that don't have this historical > precedent, see w32console.el, for example. Again, I was just wondering. No complaint from me.