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[PATCH] Add command for cycling between CSS color formats

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Cc: 29456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, simenheg <at> gmail.com, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#29456: [PATCH] Add command for cycling between CSS color formats
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:43:06 +0200

> From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>,  simenheg <at> gmail.com,  29456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:35:04 -0700
> 
> Eli> A comment will help, but I'm actually wondering why does css-mode need
> Eli> to use 12-bit or 16-bit per component RGB notation?  Why not use only
> Eli> 8-bit, as in #RRGGBB?  The problems only happen in converting 8-bit
> Eli> RGB notations to higher number of bits.
> 
> #RGB is specified by CSS, it is equivalent to #RRGGBB, and is often
> seen.  With css-color-4, #RGBA is also allowed.
> 
> Basically css-mode needs to understand the peculiarities of CSS syntax,
> which differs somewhat from other systems AFAIK.

Then I think there should be a prominent remark in the doc strings of
css-mode not to mix these functions with those from color.el, due to
this incompatibility.

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