From: Warren Harris <warrenharris@google.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 7943@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:46:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikJLBJVB3q-zjHCsiZR-nDQvnzH=XSmHsUUm6=8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837hc4rqpk.fsf@gnu.org>
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All I can say is the current behavior is quite annoying when more than 8
colors are available. Many colors have very low contrast against the grey90
background, and there's no way I can see to set the background to
brightwhite. This forces me to set my TERM so that all I get is black and
white, which can also be hard on the eyes.
I guess I can try and hack my xterm.el, but it definitely seems like a bug
to me.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> > Cc: <7943@debbugs.gnu.org>
> > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:18:54 -0800
> >
> > > ("white" 7 (229 229 229)) ; gray90
> > > ("brightwhite" 15 (255 255 255))) ; white
> > >
> > > As you see, what is called "white" in list-colors-display is actually
> > > gray90.... This definition is used to leave FFFFFF for brightwhite
> >
> > Wow. I won't presume to suggest that this is misguided, but I can't help
> but
> > wonder why. Why wouldn't white be called "white" and gray90 be called
> "gray90"
> > or "off-white" or some such?
>
> For compatibility with 8-color text terminals that cannot produce the
> bright colors, IIRC.
>
> Some text terminals can produce bright white by combining white with
> another text attribute (bold, if I'm not mistaken). Having 8-color
> terminals without "white" would be confusing.
>
> We do use "gray" on terminals that don't have this historical
> precedent, see w32console.el, for example.
>
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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 [this message]
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
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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