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: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:35:50 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6654-Sun08Feb2004203550+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200402080413.i184DH6M015994@gremlin.ics.uci.edu> <200402080815.i188F46M001654@gremlin.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076265493 20292 80.91.224.253 (8 Feb 2004 18:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 18:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 08 19:38:04 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 1Aptoi-000309-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:38:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aptoi-0002Vu-00 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:38:04 +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 1Aptnb-0008HW-3s for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:36:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AptnP-0008GU-Ay for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:36:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aptms-00083e-UR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:36:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.18] (helo=bilbo.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aptlx-0007lK-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2004 13:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-195-161.inter.net.il [80.230.195.161]) by bilbo.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.4-GR) with ESMTP id CKV45940; Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:34:58 +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: <200402080815.i188F46M001654@gremlin.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:15:06 -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:19807 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19807 > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:15:06 -0800 > > Can we get an agreement that adding this new face specifier NCOLORS>= > is the way to go? Obviously, I agree. Please wait for a day or two for the other developers, including Richard Stallman, to respond. > > The CVS version of xterm.el should support both of them (and also the > > 16-color variety) already. Doesn't it? > > It does. Do we want another NCOLORS>= bracket for 88 color xterms? > IMHO no. I suspect that 88 colors should be enough to support all the default faces nicely. So (assuming this idea gets approved) perhaps using 88 _instead_ of 256 would be good enough. That would leave us with 16-color terminals, which include the 16-color xterm, rxvt, and the MS-Windows and MS-DOS terminals; and with 8-color terminals. What to do with the number of colors between 88 and 16, I don't know. Perhaps for now just let that behave like 16-color terminals, since we don't have such devices (AFAIK).