From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-colors-display: display all color names Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:05:33 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87d5wwsuly.fsf@jurta.org> <87brc5a99w.fsf@jurta.org> <01c4f2a1$Blat.v2.2.2$dde14140@zahav.net.il> <87d5wkzbi3.fsf@jurta.org> <01c4f358$Blat.v2.2.2$cd1cb9e0@zahav.net.il> <87ekgzvtlr.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105002661 12588 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 09:11:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 10:10:51 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmTfP-0000ks-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:10:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmTqh-00010J-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:22:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmToc-0000l5-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:20:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmToZ-0000k7-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:20:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmToY-0000jQ-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:20:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.198] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmTaH-0004o8-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:05:33 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 49so734642wri for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:05:33 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=dRNpDRkI/jm/ooR2ZK+6jIybzIChjAZMFLtNIxPcWqD0R/Xn64nSUWrxL9RtwAWgJdw7qdMtlPMZDS5t2SxD4P/fh9MEBJtln+q4hLq9k0WEqTFXbYRcNBbNYZ0z+cazbsXYKsmZMquZIMHXyXljdJ0AjPrTO60Aorub5VB/kxs= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.27 with SMTP id 27mr201125wrt; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:05:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.78 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 01:05:33 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <87ekgzvtlr.fsf@jurta.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31948 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31948 > > What's impractical about it? You can compute 12 hex digits as > > practically as you can 3 or 6. > > Impractical because the most widespread format is #RRGGBB which > compactly encodes any of 16-million colors. The 6-digit version is a good default, but that doesn't mean that the code shouldn't optionally generate other formats when necessary (when the actual RGB values dictate). [I have no idea why you used the word "impractical", it doesn't seem to make any sense in this context -- something is impractical if it's too expensive to be justified by the benefits, but as was pointed out, it's not at all expensive to generate other formats, though the benefits may be slight.] -Miles