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bug#29456: [PATCH] Add command for cycling between CSS color formats
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#29456: [PATCH] Add command for cycling between CSS color formats |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:43:06 +0200 |
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, simenheg@gmail.com, 29456@debbugs.gnu.org,
> monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:35:04 -0700
>
> Eli> A comment will help, but I'm actually wondering why does css-mode need
> Eli> to use 12-bit or 16-bit per component RGB notation? Why not use only
> Eli> 8-bit, as in #RRGGBB? The problems only happen in converting 8-bit
> Eli> RGB notations to higher number of bits.
>
> #RGB is specified by CSS, it is equivalent to #RRGGBB, and is often
> seen. With css-color-4, #RGBA is also allowed.
>
> Basically css-mode needs to understand the peculiarities of CSS syntax,
> which differs somewhat from other systems AFAIK.
Then I think there should be a prominent remark in the doc strings of
css-mode not to mix these functions with those from color.el, due to
this incompatibility.