From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 10:29:05 +0200 Message-ID: <0C1D9C84-E151-4D10-8C8B-A1E378DAAEF9@Web.DE> References: <87fvy2vyht.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367745021 12485 80.91.229.3 (5 May 2013 09:10:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 09:10:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Help" To: Steven Degutis Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 05 11:10:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UYuxW-0001TM-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 11:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51707 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYuxV-0001Xt-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 05:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYuxJ-0001Wk-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 05:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYuxJ-00074v-0G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 05:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:51067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UYuxI-00071w-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 05 May 2013 05:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.131.144]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MIN2h-1UZjOo2IWN-003yie; Sun, 05 May 2013 10:29:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:58UPO/QJ2uQylFb8I/Rya8Um4uagJ724PtIRCznP4a4 fR/fd/E83AhBZbPtqPOCV/4N9cIr9KOLY+z6tFo/nvWNf1IwKW eKtA7HLNscSDAXOdh1Am31qaW30gdGeSyADF75m5xFMHFhC5Jf Iu2clOETCOVT/vaoky/141beHQl9/0Sy/jo5XYxQT5IHbcMh46 L5uBAEwMLmjh7nd25RAzQ== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90514 Archived-At: Am 05.05.2013 um 06:41 schrieb Steven Degutis: > Because then my syntax highlighting and color theme has access to some > several million colors, not just 256. You cannot see the million differences. (And I doubt whether the = monitors can really produce that many different colours in the real = world.) *Trained* human eyes can differentiate between 128 colour tones = and 130 saturation values. In the blue spectrum these eyes can percept = 16 levels of light intensity, in the yellow spectrum it's 26 different = levels. This makes up for 380,000 different perceptible colours. 16-bit = colours are quite right for average computer users with colour monitors. I'd wish GNU Emacs could read my mind so I wouldn't have to type typos! Is it possible to invent the million names for the millions of = theoretical colours? How many years would be needed? Would it be OK to = use rather colour blind men for this job? Or should we aspire the = maximum and engage sensitive women? -- Greetings Pete Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never = stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and = neither do we. =96 Georges W. Bush