From: "Rami Ylimäki" <rami.ylimaki@vincit.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Support 24-bit terminal colors.
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:53:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmfpf9-2iEiw6nSKe17AwGsza7gvSGYY5WQEBesWvE-tvcy2w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tw7z16hv.fsf@gnu.org>
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2017-02-12 22:47 GMT+02:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
> . Please prepare a NEWS entry for this feature.
> . It seems like you dropped the code to support the --color=
> command-line argument, which was part of your original submission?
> All the other color TTY modes support --color=NUM, so I think we
> should also support --color=16777216, and perhaps also --color-24bit.
>
I'll write the NEWS entry but I'm afraid that fixing the --color=NUM option
would require too much effort right now.
The manual is too optimistic when it states that "Emacs might be able to
turn on a color mode for 8, 16, 88, or 256 as the value of NUM". In
reality, only -1, 0 and 8 are supported. The 16, 88, and 256 color modes
can only be enabled based on current terminal capabilities and this is now
true for the 16M color mode as well.
The problems of handling --color=NUM can be seen when colors are
downgraded, because color and face pixel values aren't updated. For
example, "M-x list-faces-display" produces different results with
"TERM=xterm emacs -Q -nw --color=8" and "TERM=xterm-256color emacs -Q -nw
--color=8". This is why I'd like to treat the --color option as a separate
issue.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-12 10:05 [PATCH v2] Support 24-bit terminal colors Rami Ylimäki
2017-02-12 10:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] Remove unused terminal color pair count Rami Ylimäki
2017-02-12 10:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] Support 24-bit terminal colors Rami Ylimäki
2017-02-12 10:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] Let user turn 24-bit terminal colors on Rami Ylimäki
2017-02-12 18:00 ` Filipe Silva
2017-02-12 19:27 ` Rami Ylimäki
2017-02-12 20:47 ` [PATCH v2] Support 24-bit terminal colors Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-12 22:53 ` Rami Ylimäki [this message]
2017-02-13 5:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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