From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: fxbois@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs, true color and iterm2
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:57:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy5747ml2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ioy9jsnd.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 10 Sep 2013 05:51:34 +0300")
>> > Tho, obviously, for 2bit color support, we won't will want to have
>> ^ ^^^^^
>> 24 [delete]
>>
>> > support for tty colors without going through some approximation table.
> Now I completely misunderstand what you mean by that, and why.
AFAIK, currently, color support in a tty goes through an approximation
step which choose the closest color number to use among the N colors
supported by the tty.
We'll want to skip this step if the terminal supports 24bit colors,
since the table would be both huge (16M entries) and useless.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-10 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-09 17:54 emacs, true color and iterm2 Bois Francois-Xavier
2013-09-09 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-09 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-10 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-10 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-10 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-09-10 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-10 2:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-10 10:56 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-10 11:26 ` Bois Francois-Xavier
2013-09-10 14:43 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-09-10 20:36 ` Richard Stallman
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