Re: min-colors 88

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 07:14:15 +0100 (CET)
> From: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
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> I keep seeing 88 for min-colors.  I wonder if a different number would be 
> more appropriate, as it seems 
> that 88 is quite arbitrary.

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".