Re: Retrieving color names and hex values using list-colors-display for coding purposes

Heime <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:22:32 +0000

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On Thursday, July 16th, 2026 at 5:42 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote=
:

> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:56:34 +0000
> > From: Heime <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > How can I get list of colour names and hex numbers (list-colors-display=
)
> > that I can then use in my code with a loop.
>
> The function defined-colors will return the list of names of supported
> colors.  The function color-values will return the RGB triplet for the
> given color.

How does the computation for white give 65535 ?

"white" 65535 65535 65535