Re: min-colors 88

[Emanuel Berg]

fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

>> No, it means 88 different colors overall.
>
> Would you know the bit length using for each of the base
> colours when 88 different colours started to be used?
> Perhaps three 5-Bit numbers?

007, see:

  There has also been a similar but incompatible 88-color
  encoding using the same escape sequence, seen in rxvt and
  xterm-88color. Not much is known about the scheme besides
  the color codes. It uses a 4×4×4 color cube. [1]

AKA the "Big Eric" mode.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

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