Fwd: XEmacs returns the wrong values for display-color-cells

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

oops, forgot xemacs-beta.  Sorry for the dupe, Jeff!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephen J. Turnbull <stephenjturnbull at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: XEmacs returns the wrong values for display-color-cells
To: Jeff Sparkes <jsparkes at gmail.com>


On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Jeff Sparkes <jsparkes at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Maybe fo some future holographic display?  :-)
>> I'll redo the patch with max 24 bits.

Thanks!

> I'd have done a bug report on tracker, but it's down right now.
> Should I also implement this for ttys?  In tty-init.el we define the 16 ansi
> colors, but are they available in every tty?

Yes, if you know how to do it.  In particular, the terminfo capability
max_colors
(just "colors" in terminfo files and "Co" in termcap files) should give you the
right answer on a properly configured system.