min-colors 88

[fatiparty]

Jan 28, 2022, 06:30 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:09:34 +0100 (CET)
>> From: fatiparty@tutanota.com
>> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>> > You are thinking about this in the wrong direction, AFAIU.  On
>> > text-mode terminals, colors are just indices into a table, and the
>> > table itself is not exposed.  How the indices are mapped to the actual
>> > colors is entirely up to the terminal emulator.  So it is not useful
>> > to think about these colors in terms of bots per pixel.
>> >
>> I could be mistaking the interpretation of the hex-codes to the number of 
>> colours
>> available.
>>
>
> Which hex-codes?
>
For instance #RRGGBB, #RRRRGGGGBBBB.  As I understand there is no relation
between thu possibilities provided by the hex-codes and the lookup table of 
actual
colours that can be rendered.