From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: warrenharris@google.com, 7943@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:46:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8339msrm74.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99CE0660F55F487B85C9DA6764F65CC6@us.oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <warrenharris@google.com>, <7943@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:50:43 -0800
>
> > For compatibility with 8-color text terminals that cannot produce the
> > bright colors, IIRC.
>
> My wondering is only about the _names_. Why call a dark or dim red "red" or
> call a light gray "white"?
Because it would be confusing not to have a white color.
Colors can be specified by their names in Emacs, not just by their RGB
values. By the time tty colors were added to Emacs, the names of the
8 ANSI colors supported by text terminals were already "common
knowledge", so we kept them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-12 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-30 18:58 bug#7943: 23.1; white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window Warren Harris
2011-01-31 16:14 ` bug#7943: Acknowledgement (23.1; white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window) Warren Harris
2011-03-12 18:39 ` bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window Warren Harris
2011-03-12 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 20:18 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-12 20:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-03-12 21:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 21:46 ` Warren Harris
2011-03-12 22:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=0H52EhBhrFQg5Q0+Xmo8w79Zbd2_1o3kGhHTw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-13 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-13 17:42 ` Warren Harris
2011-03-13 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-13 20:17 ` Warren Harris
2011-03-13 21:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-13 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-13 21:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-12 21:50 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-12 22:46 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-03-12 22:57 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <handler.7943.D7943.129996906125049.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2011-03-13 0:57 ` bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window) Warren Harris
2011-03-13 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-13 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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