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bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:09:27 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: <7943@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:18:54 -0800
>
> > ("white" 7 (229 229 229)) ; gray90
> > ("brightwhite" 15 (255 255 255))) ; white
> >
> > As you see, what is called "white" in list-colors-display is actually
> > gray90.... This definition is used to leave FFFFFF for brightwhite
>
> Wow. I won't presume to suggest that this is misguided, but I can't help but
> wonder why. Why wouldn't white be called "white" and gray90 be called
> "gray90"
> or "off-white" or some such?
For compatibility with 8-color text terminals that cannot produce the
bright colors, IIRC.
Some text terminals can produce bright white by combining white with
another text attribute (bold, if I'm not mistaken). Having 8-color
terminals without "white" would be confusing.
We do use "gray" on terminals that don't have this historical
precedent, see w32console.el, for example.
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
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- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
- Message not available
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/13