From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Charles Strahan <charles@cstrahan.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support 24-bit terminal colors.
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 18:28:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1bm73b-0001Lu-O0@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474259552.1272332.729720513.023EF9A3@webmail.messagingengine.com> (message from Charles Strahan on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:32:32 -0400)
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> > > Perhaps we should define a way to use termcap or terminfo to
> > > specify whether the terminal supports 24-bit color
> > > and call on terminals to state their capabilities this way.
> Regrettably, It would appear that the likelihood of that happening is
> close to 0%
It isn't easy for me to read an email thread, but your words suggest
you think that this is out of our hands. That claim surprises me. We
can establish a convention, and it will catch on because it will be
useful. That process will take years, but that's ok -- we are not in
a hurry.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-19 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-30 20:55 [PATCH] Support 24-bit terminal colors Rami Ylimäki
2016-08-30 21:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-08-30 22:07 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-08-30 22:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-08-30 22:47 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-08-31 21:42 ` Richard Stallman
2016-09-01 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-19 4:32 ` Charles Strahan
2016-09-19 22:28 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-09-23 13:46 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-25 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2016-09-25 19:45 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-26 0:10 ` Chad Brown
2016-09-26 17:52 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-07 0:12 ` Charles Strahan
2016-09-23 13:48 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-09-24 9:05 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2016-08-30 22:08 ` Rami Ylimäki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-31 17:47 Rami Ylimäki
2016-08-31 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-08-30 20:11 Rami Ylimäki
2016-08-31 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-04 5:45 ` David Caldwell
2016-09-04 8:11 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-04 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-04 16:44 ` Rami Ylimäki
2016-09-04 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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