Re: Question: How does color-lighten-name work?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 08:23:16 +0200
> 
> (require 'color)
> (let ((newbg "#102030"))
>   (message "newbg: %s" newbg)
>   (setq newbg (color-lighten-name newbg 10))
>   (message "newbg: %s" newbg))
> 
> evaluated in the *scratch* buffer. will print the following:
> 
> newbg: #102030
> newbg: #11ab23563501
> 
> Shouldn't the second colour spec have only 3 bytes?

No, it uses the default format of 4 digits per component.

We could perhaps add an additional optional argument to specify how
many digits per component to produce.