Subject: bug#7943: white background is color #e5e5e5 in terminal window

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:44:15 +0200

> From: Warren Harris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:39:10 -0800
> Cc: 
> 
> Any update on this bug? Thanks,

Sorry for such a long delay.

This is not a bug.  The xterm colors are defined on lisp/term/xterm.el
as follows:

  (defvar xterm-standard-colors
    ;; The names in the comments taken from XTerm-col.ad in the xterm
    ;; distribution, see ftp://dickey.his.com/xterm/.  RGB values are
    ;; from rgb.txt.
    '(("black"          0 (  0   0   0))	; black
      ("red"            1 (205   0   0))	; red3
      ("green"          2 (  0 205   0))	; green3
      ("yellow"         3 (205 205   0))	; yellow3
      ("blue"           4 (  0   0 238))	; blue2
      ("magenta"        5 (205   0 205))	; magenta3
      ("cyan"           6 (  0 205 205))	; cyan3
      ("white"          7 (229 229 229))	; gray90
      ("brightblack"    8 (127 127 127))	; gray50
      ("brightred"      9 (255   0   0))	; red
      ("brightgreen"   10 (  0 255   0))	; green
      ("brightyellow"  11 (255 255   0))	; yellow
      ("brightblue"    12 (92   92 255))	; rgb:5c/5c/ff
      ("brightmagenta" 13 (255   0 255))	; magenta
      ("brightcyan"    14 (  0 255 255))	; cyan
      ("brightwhite"   15 (255 255 255)))	; white

As you see, what is called "white" in list-colors-display is actually
gray90, and its RGB components are 229 decimal, or E5 hex.  Exactly
what you see.  This definition is used to leave FFFFFF for
brightwhite, see above.

So I suggest to close this bug.