Re: Emacs color names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:09:59 +0200
> Cc: 
> 
> Emanuel Schmid writes:
> 
> > Currently I don't get decent colour names if I'm running through putty, 
> > as described in 
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PuTTY for emacs 21 and 22
> 
> TBH I don't think it's exclusive to putty. I also get (mostly)
> incomprehensible names when I try to use completion when customising a
> face -
> black          blue           brightblack    brightblue     brightcyan
> brightgreen    brightmagenta  brightred      brightwhite    brightyellow
> color-100      color-101      color-102      color-103      color-104
> (etc.)

That's normal, assuming that you use a 256-color xterm.

Why is that a problem?  If you need to know how each color looks like,
just use "M-x list-colors-display RET".