From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: warrenharris@google.com, 7943@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:57:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B2C32499C5994AC09B1F356309B16BA4@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8339msrm74.fsf@gnu.org>
> > > 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.
You mean a color named "white" don't you? You've already said that such
terminals do not really have a white color.
Anyway, why? Why would it be confusing to not have a color named "white" - if
there is in fact no white color?
Why wouldn't it be clearer to have only a color named "off white" (or "dirty
white" or ...) if the only available whitish color is off white?
> Colors can be specified by their names in Emacs, not just by their RGB
> values.
Precisely. And color names are somewhat conventional. Using the name "white"
for the color with RGB code FFFFFFFFF (any number 3*N of F's) is as conventional
as you can get. Using the same name for any other color is quite
unconventional.
> 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.
Times change. History conflicts with convention sometimes.
Anyway, as I said, you'll get no complaint from me about it. Call the color
white "black" if you like.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-12 22:57 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
2011-03-12 22:57 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[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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