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Re: min-colors 88


From: Bastian Beranek
Subject: Re: min-colors 88
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:54:14 +0100

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:46 AM fatiparty--- via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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

6.459-bit, 88 colours, clearly :-)

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