From: Bastian Beranek <bastian.beischer@rwth-aachen.de>
To: fatiparty@tutanota.com
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: min-colors 88
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:54:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK9AuB8rSC_niCFP5tRZWDX1BNgEuvXOs9K50C20PLx4YRgDcg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MuQ7gHA--3-2@tutanota.com>
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM fatiparty--- via Users list for the
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>
> Jan 27, 2022, 21:56 by eliz@gnu.org:
>
> >> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:43:53 +0100 (CET)
> >> From: fatiparty@tutanota.com
> >> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> >>
> >> > It is not arbitrary: xterm (and its workalikes) has a mode where it
> >> > supports 88 colors. That number is enough for Emacs to express all of
> >> > the possible colors from the X repertoire, so we use that as a
> >> > threshold for "any color is supported".
> >> >
> >> Would you know what colour bit would the 88 colours correspond to?
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand: what do you mean by "colour bit" here?
> >
>
> I mean the pixel depth
>
> 4-bit, 16 colours
> 8-bit, 256 colours
> 16-bit, 65,000 colours
6.459-bit, 88 colours, clearly :-)
>
>
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