From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:40:55 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20110130185857.ABE7116C28C@purefun.sfo.corp.google.com> <83d3lwrunk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299964133 21954 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2011 21:08:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Warren Harris , 7943@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 12 22:08:49 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 1PyW3M-0007om-TS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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gray90 >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 ("brightwhite" =C2=A0 15 (255 255 255))) =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 ; white >> >> As you see, what is called "white" in list-colors-display is actually >> gray90.... =C2=A0This definition is used to leave FFFFFF for brightwhite > > Wow. =C2=A0I won't presume to suggest that this is misguided, but I can't= help but > wonder why. =C2=A0Why wouldn't white be called "white" and gray90 be call= ed "gray90" > or "off-white" or some such? =C2=A0Likewise for red and the rest. =C2=A0W= hy change the > standard/conventional/common definition of the color name? > > Just wondering. Because this is Emacs? ;-)