Re: device-color-cells a pain

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Wohler <[email protected]> writes:

    Bill> Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't stating the actual
    Bill> heuristic, just my personal observation.

I think it's reasonable to guess that GNU Emacs is using some kind of
heuristic if it returns those values in those circumstances.  As far
as I know there is no standard way to find out how many colors a TTY
supports.

    Bill> Thanks. Unfortunately, these don't seem to be in 21.4.18. It
    Bill> seems to me that putting this logic in device-color-cells in
    Bill> the first place would avoid these problems.

As far as I can see, that would cripple applications that have more
strict requirements.  Either *you* have to test device-color-cells, or
the "sophisticated" application has to use a completely different API.
You can't both get the desired semantics from the same API.

If you have a suggestion that serves both purposes, I'd love to hear
it.  But IMO a second API is silly when (or (device-color-cells) 2) is
sufficient for your purposes.

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