GNU bug report logs - #22110
True color support

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 17:38:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 20243

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Forwarded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00461.html

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22110: True color support
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:03:15 +0200

> From: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:56:59 -0800
> 
> Many modern themes rely on true color support. Unfortunately, terminal emacs
> does not support true colors. There are patches available:
> 
> https://github.com/zenorocha/dracula-theme/issues/116
> 
> This patch appears to be no more than a few lines of code.

It's much more than just a few lines.  I also don't quite understand
why xfaces.c needs to be changed and would like to avoid that if
possible.

> Why not integrate true color support into the next release of emacs? 

I was in the middle of discussing this 2 years ago, when the
discussion stalled.  I hope the author will come back, rebase his
patch, and continue the discussion where we left off back then.
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