From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: min-colors 88 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:09:34 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <83fsp9fzg6.fsf@gnu.org> <83a6fhfqna.fsf@gnu.org> <83zgnhe93c.fsf@gnu.org> <83sft9e6sz.fsf@gnu.org> <83r18tdxd3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: fatiparty@tutanota.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18047"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 19:11:57 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 1nD9FT-0004VB-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:11:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33960 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9FS-0001fl-BS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9DJ-0001e7-22 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:09:43 -0500 Original-Received: from w1.tutanota.de ([81.3.6.162]:40520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nD9DE-0005HO-J6; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:09:38 -0500 Original-Received: from w3.tutanota.de (unknown [192.168.1.164]) by w1.tutanota.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F2BFBF846; Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:09:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1643306974; s=s1; d=tutanota.com; h=From:From:To:To:Subject:Subject:Content-Description:Content-ID:Content-Type:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Cc:Date:Date:In-Reply-To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:References:Sender; bh=vILASpCobWL5deYju20fbGltWZJKTbaFwl0AnMxDNwU=; b=sk2itteDfaF+EeKAYQALtKIsg8ZUXDHJY8gSxg92wUL/kdVKv+vOvf9OxZxrEjsU Jh9GSawfBUtIJDA35Y866Gxyk6ibuy22165EumLVZrlZsKv+OjbuUXFicHgf+td2e40 joV42FmVz6G0KqfeDjSKzGKyvkZX8p82/0P+iBAPCHbnJcs7zNlNww4upzekUjUaixT B5uKjFoNqn82rly7zdICIivOLpYECVcAWhQnr+mNQ+5MtmoFbOqXQ2v8BAlyvZ9E59T nGHfHXJhHbEyMMMzH7bfZfH6zI05IQMsq/A8sfqw8NuW4AqPufyplDg2pMBZVqx7DEp a/cqumT6vg== In-Reply-To: <83r18tdxd3.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.3.6.162; envelope-from=fatiparty@tutanota.com; helo=w1.tutanota.de X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:135574 Archived-At: Jan 28, 2022, 03:14 by eliz@gnu.org: >> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:03:54 +0100 (CET) >> From: fatiparty@tutanota.com >> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs >> >> > No, it means 88 different colors overall. >> > >> Would you know the bit length using for each of the base colours when 88 different colours >> started to be used? Perhaps three 5-Bit numbers? >> > > 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.