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Re: min-colors 88
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: min-colors 88 |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:50:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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".
88 was useful to people who went to South America after WW2 as
well ...
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