From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs, true color and iterm2 Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:56:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83li35kbuz.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378756618 28268 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2013 19:56:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 19:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bois Francois-Xavier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 09 21:57:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1VJ7Zw-0003lz-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 21:56:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJ7Zv-0000Ra-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJ7Zl-0000Qs-Cl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:56:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJ7Ze-0001G9-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:36314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJ7Zd-0001G5-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:56:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MSV00G00JCJZH00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:56:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MSV00GW8JEBSN90@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:56:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163276 Archived-At: > From: Bois Francois-Xavier > Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 19:54:26 +0200 > > iterm2, a widely used open source terminal on OSX, is working on offering > compatibility with true color (3-byte color mode). > > It can be a great feature for emacs users working on terminals. > > An interesting discussion about the best way to "code" the colors is taking > place on https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=218. > > Could a core emacs developer give them some feedbacks ? (does emacs > requires a special encoding ?) What Emacs needs can be seen from its support of xterm-256, see xterm.el in the Emacs distribution. In a nutshell, someone should write a function that registers all the supported colors as xterm-register-default-colors does.