From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: harder@ifa.au.dk, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number)
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:55:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2914-Mon01Mar2004215520+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buowu65qe2z.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (message from Miles Bader on 01 Mar 2004 15:24:52 +0900)
> From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
> Date: 01 Mar 2004 15:24:52 +0900
>
> > Bottom line is, I think list-colors-display should display colors
> > whose number is close to what Emacs can use on that display, except
> > that it probably shouldn't be too long (so I don't suggest to display
> > 64K colors, for example).
>
> There are only a few important cases in practice -- monochrome,
> low-color (e.g. 8 color) displays, 256-color (8 bit) displays, and
> everything else. The current behavior seems to be basically same as
> what you want for most common displays; if you really care, I suppose
> you could look into making it work well in other rarer cases (but I
> suppose that you probably don't care enough).
Getting reasonable results on X seems like something we should want, I
think. Showing only 64 colors sounds like less than optimal behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 19:55 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-29 17:01 ` Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number) Jan D.
2004-02-29 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-29 19:27 ` Jan D.
2004-02-29 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-29 21:58 ` Jan D.
2004-03-01 5:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-01 12:55 ` Jan D.
2004-02-29 22:39 ` Jason Rumney
2004-03-01 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-01 8:30 ` Jason Rumney
2004-03-01 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-29 22:03 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-01 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-01 6:24 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-01 19:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-03-02 2:24 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-02 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-02 6:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-03-01 9:39 ` Jan D.
2004-02-29 18:18 ` Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors Jesper Harder
2004-02-29 21:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-02-29 18:54 ` Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number) Luc Teirlinck
2004-02-29 19:33 ` Jan D.
2004-02-29 20:07 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-02-29 20:20 ` Jan D.
2004-02-29 21:29 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-03-01 10:47 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-03-01 12:11 ` Richard Stallman
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