Re: emacs, true color and iterm2

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bois Francois-Xavier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 19:54:26 +0200
> 
> 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.