GNU bug report logs - #4033
23.1; list-colors-display is misleading

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 16:10:07 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 4033 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 4033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4033: 23.1; list-colors-display is misleading
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:35:12 +0300

> I have had at least one user state that he thought that, since the
> form shown is #RRGGBB, his colors had only that granularity.  IOW,
> even if one's system allows colors of the form #RRRRGGGGBBBB (more
> colors), the color names are translated to hex strings of the form
> #RRGGBB (fewer colors).

Could you show a formula that calculates the color granularity?

We could use it to print colors in the short format #RRGGBB
for the smaller color space and #RRRRGGGGBBBB otherwise.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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