From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: supporting more faces on 256 colors xterms Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:02:07 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2914-Fri13Feb2004110207+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200402080413.i184DH6M015994@gremlin.ics.uci.edu> <200402080815.i188F46M001654@gremlin.ics.uci.edu> <9003-Sun08Feb2004202425+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200402082352.i18NqY6M003350@gremlin.ics.uci.edu> <200402122213.i1CMDW24017434@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076663297 27062 80.91.224.253 (13 Feb 2004 09:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 13 10:08:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArZIv-0007cs-00 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ArZIv-0003eo-00 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:08:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArZDR-0004JN-F1 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:02:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArZDC-0004Fb-22 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:02:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ArZCc-00045H-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:02:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ArZCb-00044N-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:01:37 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.156.165]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id CLZ42335; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:01:32 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Dan Nicolaescu X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200402122213.i1CMDW24017434@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:13:34 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19913 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19913 > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:13:34 -0800 > > For the etc/NEWS file, I don't know where this would fit, so it's not > a patch. It doesn't really matter; the standard practice is to put it at the beginning of the relevant section (Installation, User-level, or Lisp changes). The list of changes is reordered by importance when a release is being prepared. > A new attribute `min-colors' has been added to the `defface' face > specification language. It is used to specify the face characteristics > depending on the number of colors supported by the display. This is a Lisp-level change, and the wording seems to say that it is a rather obscure one. I would suggest an entry in the user-level changes saying something like "Emacs now uses the full range of colors supported by multic-lor character terminals for the default faces." Also, in the Lisp-level change, I would think we should tell people who write Lisp programs to prefer min-colors over the previous methods of defining face defaults.