min-colors 88

[fatiparty]

Jan 27, 2022, 18:46 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 07:14:15 +0100 (CET)
>> From: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
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>>
>> I keep seeing 88 for min-colors.  I wonder if a different number would be 
>> more appropriate, as it seems 
>> that 88 is quite arbitrary.
>>
>
> It is not arbitrary: xterm (and its workalikes) has a mode where it
> supports 88 colors.  That number is enough for Emacs to express all of
> the possible colors from the X repertoire, so we use that as a
> threshold for "any color is supported".
>
Would you know what colour bit would the 88 colours correspond to?