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bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:40:55 +0100 |
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> ("white" 7 (229 229 229)) ; gray90
>> ("brightwhite" 15 (255 255 255))) ; white
>>
>> As you see, what is called "white" in list-colors-display is actually
>> gray90.... This definition is used to leave FFFFFF for brightwhite
>
> Wow. I won't presume to suggest that this is misguided, but I can't help but
> wonder why. Why wouldn't white be called "white" and gray90 be called
> "gray90"
> or "off-white" or some such? Likewise for red and the rest. Why change the
> standard/conventional/common definition of the color name?
>
> Just wondering.
Because this is Emacs? ;-)
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12
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- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Warren Harris, 2011/03/12
- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
- bug#7943: closed (Re: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/13
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- bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/12