From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: face colors on 256 colors terminals Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:03:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200504060817.j368HDAH019106@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <01c53acd$Blat.v2.4$7c0f2080@zahav.net.il> <01c53ad0$Blat.v2.4$aa0fd4e0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112810766 6144 80.91.229.2 (6 Apr 2005 18:06:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 20:06:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJEu1-0001CG-5Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:05:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJETA-0003y9-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DJESz-0003xk-I2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:37:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DJESy-0003wL-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 13:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJEsV-0007KU-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:03:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DJErp-0006Zc-AD; Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:03:05 -0400 Original-To: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <01c53ad0$Blat.v2.4$aa0fd4e0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:46:10 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35649 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35649 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> 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