From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs color names
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:48:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ocgmp6cq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d3x2cql4.fsf@garydjones.name>
> From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:09:59 +0200
> Cc:
>
> Emanuel Schmid writes:
>
> > Currently I don't get decent colour names if I'm running through putty,
> > as described in
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PuTTY for emacs 21 and 22
>
> TBH I don't think it's exclusive to putty. I also get (mostly)
> incomprehensible names when I try to use completion when customising a
> face -
> black blue brightblack brightblue brightcyan
> brightgreen brightmagenta brightred brightwhite brightyellow
> color-100 color-101 color-102 color-103 color-104
> (etc.)
That's normal, assuming that you use a 256-color xterm.
Why is that a problem? If you need to know how each color looks like,
just use "M-x list-colors-display RET".
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-11 8:48 Emacs color names Emanuel Schmid
2010-05-11 17:09 ` Gary
2010-05-11 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-05-12 6:18 ` Gary .
2010-05-12 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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