From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:03:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5u0mjeqah.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c53ad0$Blat.v2.4$aa0fd4e0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:46:10 +0300")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Actually, it does not make sense to scale in that way. #3a7 really
>> should be the same as #3333aaaa7777, so that #fff is the same as
>> #ffffffffffff, pure white.
>
> That could be so, but:
>
> (1) The #RRGGBB syntax being a legacy thingy, I don't believe anyone
> will want to change it;
I'll grant that it is highly probably that this rather obvious
amendment has been previously proposed. Maybe one would need an
alternative syntax like %RRGGBB that would then be expanded in the
more natural way of repetition instead of null-padding. Who would one
have to approach for that, anyway? The Open Group?
> and
>
> (2) As long as X does it this way, so must we,
Surely.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-06 8:17 face colors on 256 colors terminals Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-06 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-06 17:36 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-06 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-06 18:03 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-04-06 18:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-07 20:43 ` James Cloos
2005-04-08 1:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-08 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-08 15:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-09 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-06 17:52 ` Dan Nicolaescu
[not found] ` <01c53aea$Blat.v2.4$16ee4740@zahav.net.il>
2005-04-06 23:50 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-07 0:22 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-07 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-07 5:14 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-07 10:23 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-08 1:13 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-07 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <200504062134.j36LY8AH022227@scanner2.ics.uci.edu>
2005-04-07 3:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-07 18:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-08 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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