From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:46:55 +0200 Message-ID: <8339msrm74.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20110130185857.ABE7116C28C@purefun.sfo.corp.google.com> <83d3lwrunk.fsf@gnu.org> <837hc4rqpk.fsf@gnu.org> <99CE0660F55F487B85C9DA6764F65CC6@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299971254 20610 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2011 23:07:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: warrenharris@google.com, 7943@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 13 00:07:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXtz-0007gW-BP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:07:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyXtq-00038c-07 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60476 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyXtk-00037h-5D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXti-0002Kp-2K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:06:59 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXti-0002Kk-0y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXaP-0006rv-Of; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:47:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7943 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7943-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7943.129997001926395 (code B ref 7943); Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7943) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2011 22:46:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXaN-0006rf-Ct for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PyXaL-0006rS-Dl for 7943@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:46:58 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHY00700V8ZVU00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 7943@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:46:51 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.58.59]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHY007YEVA1JY30@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:46:51 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <99CE0660F55F487B85C9DA6764F65CC6@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:47:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:44955 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: , <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.