From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs, true color and iterm2 Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:12:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83li35kbuz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378768377 26753 80.91.229.3 (9 Sep 2013 23:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 23:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bois Francois-Xavier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 10 01:12:59 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 1VJAdf-0007Ew-6y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:12:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJAde-0002Ig-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46767) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJAdU-0002IO-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJAdN-0003qt-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:55369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VJAdF-0003iY-IP; Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:12:33 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: At0KABK/CFG4rxBo/2dsb2JhbABEvg0EAnsXc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GDMEdBJEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IPAS-Result: At0KABK/CFG4rxBo/2dsb2JhbABEvg0EAnsXc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GDMEdBJEKA6R6gV6DEw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="27043004" Original-Received: from 184-175-16-104.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.16.104]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 09 Sep 2013 19:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5DAC363031; Mon, 9 Sep 2013 19:12:30 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83li35kbuz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 09 Sep 2013 22:56:36 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:163277 Archived-At: >> 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. Tho, obviously, for 2bit color support, we won't will want to have support for tty colors without going through some approximation table. Stefan