min-colors 88

[fatiparty]

Jan 27, 2022, 21:56 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:43:53 +0100 (CET)
>> From: fatiparty@tutanota.com
>> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: what do you mean by "colour bit" here?
>
 
I mean the pixel depth

4-bit, 16 colours
 8-bit, 256 colours
16-bit, 65,000 colours