Re: Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number)

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> However, this sounds like a tip of an iceberg: are you saying that
> list-display-colors will display a list whose length has no simple
> relation to what display-color-cells returns?  That sounds bad,
> doesn't it?

Um, no.  [I presume you meant `list-colors-display',]

Perhaps the doc string should be more clear about it [though I suppose
technically it's accurate, as it makes no mention of being exhaustive], but
the default behavior on X is to display a list of `interesting' colors (those
with names).  Such a list is more likely to emphasize colors that are
interesting to human eyes, and I doubt that anyone cares whether such it has
any simple relationship to the number of possible colors when its length is
above about a 100 or so -- you can still, obviously, use the #xxx notation to
get any color you want.

-Miles
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