Re: Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number)

[Jan D.]

> I know that the list of colors displayed by list-colors-display on X
> is fixed (see my message earlier in this thread), but I always
> thought, I don't know why, that the length of that list is near the
> number returned by display-color-cells.
>
> If this is not true, one may ask what is so ``interesting'' about the
> specific colors we show as opposed to those we don't.  For example,
> when I work on Irix, I generally like to use the Irix-specific colors
> (that are not shown by list-colors-display, of course) because they
> are much more pleasant to my eyes.  So to me, those unshown colors are
> much more ``interesting'' than those we show, in that specific case.

Emacs could read the rgb.txt file and add colors from that file into
the list.  Or better, execute showrgb and catch the output.  That way
Emacs does not have to worry where the rgb.txt file is.  But this
may too slow, I haven't tested it.

I assume those Irix colors are shown by showrgb.

        Jan D.