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changeset 42957:6a35c3566bfd
(Text Terminal Colors): Document tty-display-color-cells.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:53:56 +0000 |
| parents | c3891881b74d |
| children | 2d81f84af342 |
| files | lispref/frames.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/frames.texi Fri Jan 25 13:34:47 2002 +0000 +++ b/lispref/frames.texi Fri Jan 25 13:53:56 2002 +0000 @@ -1551,13 +1551,16 @@ @cindex colors on text-only terminals Emacs can display color on text-only terminals, starting with version -21. These terminals support only a small number of colors, and the -computer uses small integers to select colors on the terminal. This +21. These terminals usually support only a small number of colors, and +the computer uses small integers to select colors on the terminal. This means that the computer cannot reliably tell what the selected color looks like; instead, you have to inform your application which small integers correspond to which colors. However, Emacs does know the standard set of colors and will try to use them automatically. + The functions described in this section control how terminal colors +are used by Emacs. + @cindex rgb value Several of these functions use or return @dfn{rgb values}. An rgb value is a list of three integers, which give the amount of red, the @@ -1572,6 +1575,11 @@ selected frame's terminal; @pxref{Input Focus}). At present, though, the @var{display} argument has no effect. +@defun tty-display-color-cells &optional display +This function returns the number of distinct colors supported for +@var{display}. +@end defun + @defun tty-color-define name number &optional rgb display @tindex tty-color-define This function associates the color name @var{name} with