Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.05.2013 um 06:41 schrieb Steven Degutis:

> Because then my syntax highlighting and color theme has access to some
> several million colors, not just 256.

You cannot see the million differences. (And I doubt whether the monitors can 
really produce that many different colours in the real world.) *Trained* human 
eyes can differentiate between 128 colour tones and 130 saturation values. In 
the blue spectrum these eyes can percept 16 levels of light intensity, in the 
yellow spectrum it's 26 different levels. This makes up for 380,000 different 
perceptible colours. 16-bit colours are quite right for average computer users 
with colour monitors.

I'd wish GNU Emacs could read my mind so I wouldn't have to type typos!


Is it possible to invent the million names for the millions of theoretical 
colours? How many years would be needed? Would it be OK to use rather colour 
blind men for this job? Or should we aspire the maximum and engage sensitive 
women?

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  Pete

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