Re: Adequacy of min-colors thresholds

> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:44:17 +0000
> From: Heime <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> 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?

No, that's not what I meant.  I meant to define the color without
min-colors at all, and _then_ test with terminals (or terminal modes)
which support different numbers of colors

> And what is a (min-colors 88) exactly?

Any terminal that supports at least 88 colors.