From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: min-colors 88 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 20:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83bkzxdoba.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83fsp9fzg6.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6fhfqna.fsf@gnu.org> <83zgnhe93c.fsf@gnu.org> <83sft9e6sz.fsf@gnu.org> <83r18tdxd3.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5239"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 19:32:41 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9ZX-00018c-Jm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:32:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36334 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9ZW-0007A5-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:32:38 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9Xz-00078A-TS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:31:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=34886 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9Xq-0000em-ET for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:31:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Lrfrqwy4Sq7OZTh1M0Yr0CrL+08d87pcTT9KAzBMCVk=; b=rhIThI1h8KUN NW6881xep7MUzdkwZZt1/5foDaOjVOBKjWgBYDw+uwe/uQlw921D5dooHZBFLe8K+D2bOX8pAmpz7 AGi5ErB72DSKyldcyVGw+6z4+R9YRCj6RwdWEt12j5pR/My6dpzhyXou8jI1+afCJOzwe+quLcS+i hb0+Zlwi2Hsw8sudwU0hLQx+SRmudpWVTf0Qrg+/xqAhdp+HQN40Jz9E83yJjcIvu/KDCv4vj22Tz IK3p+w5GrdxqsKiKhYI4Pm+Tyu4aZ50/JpWbN8yfLQPtK8dbv+HxjZV5XeBYbGGERiJ8Tx7F6qGJi +eWpNTtVccSX18ASEvZznA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4884 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9X5-00012v-1D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:30:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: (fatiparty@tutanota.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135575 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:09:34 +0100 (CET) > From: fatiparty@tutanota.com > Cc: Help Gnu Emacs > > > You are thinking about this in the wrong direction, AFAIU. On > > text-mode terminals, colors are just indices into a table, and the > > table itself is not exposed. How the indices are mapped to the actual > > colors is entirely up to the terminal emulator. So it is not useful > > to think about these colors in terms of bots per pixel. > > > I could be mistaking the interpretation of the hex-codes to the number of colours > available. Which hex-codes?