Re: Adequacy of min-colors thresholds

On Tuesday, July 14th, 2026 at 1:33 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:52:24 +0000
> > From: Heime <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> >
> > > The rule of thumb is: unless you must use very fine differences
> > > between colors, don't use min-colors at all.  Emacs is quite capable
> > > of choosing the best match to "darkseagreen2" even if a color by that
> > > name is not directly supported.
> >
> > I'm aware of the capability you mention.  Nevertheless, what values
> > would you suggest to test for min-colors?
> 
> To test? all of them, of course.  Or at least as many as you can.  You
> should test on 8-color terminal, on 16-color terminal, on 256-color
> terminal, and on TrueColor terminal.

Would that be (min-colors 256) on 256-color terminal.  How about TrueColor?
And what is a (min-colors 88) exactly?
 
> > Are 8, 16, and 88 still relevant?
> 
> Yes, very much so.
> 
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