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True color support

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From: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: True color support
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:56:59 -0800

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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.  Unfortunately,
the patch is out of date.

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

Thanks very much for your development efforts!

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Message #8 received at 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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.

Message #15 received at 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22110: True color support
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 22:36:12 -0800

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Thanks for your reply.

Looks like @choppsv1 also made a patch for emacs 24.5:
https://gist.github.com/choppsv1/e8198df70cb1778b04d6

Thanks to @film42 for pointing this out (link
<https://github.com/zenorocha/dracula-theme/issues/116#issuecomment-162788131>
).

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > 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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Message #18 received at 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>,
 Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger <at> c-plusplus.de>
Cc: 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22110: True color support
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:16:57 +0200

> From: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 22:36:12 -0800
> Cc: 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Looks like @choppsv1 also made a patch for emacs 24.5:
> https://gist.github.com/choppsv1/e8198df70cb1778b04d6

That patch is also based on the original patch by Rüdiger Sonderfeld,
as the comments say.  So we really need Rüdiger to come back and
continue polishing the patch until it can be accepted.

Rüdiger, are you there?  Can we pick up this conversation where we
left off?

Thanks.

Message #21 received at 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 22110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22110: True color support
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:39:57 +0200

close 22110 26.1
thanks

Eric Becker <121onto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Many modern themes rely on true color support.  Unfortunately, terminal emacs does not support true colors.
[...]
> Why not integrate true color support into the next release of emacs?

This was added in Emacs 26.1.

etc/NEWS.26 says:

> ** Emacs now supports 24-bit colors on capable text terminals.
> Terminal is automatically initialized to use 24-bit colors if the
> required capabilities are found in terminfo.  See the FAQ node
> "(efaq) Colors on a TTY" for more information.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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