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Po Lu |
Subject: |
master a6f7d0f4e3: ; * src/xterm.c: Improve commentary. |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Apr 2022 00:44:14 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit a6f7d0f4e38555080bbdb45dbb414e15d206f548
Author: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Commit: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
; * src/xterm.c: Improve commentary.
---
src/xterm.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/xterm.c b/src/xterm.c
index 102447ad7e..7eef2b488b 100644
--- a/src/xterm.c
+++ b/src/xterm.c
@@ -142,14 +142,22 @@ along with GNU Emacs. If not, see
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
draw text in inverse video, and the cursor graphics context is used
to display the cursor in the most common case.
+ N.B. that some of the other window systems supported by use an
+ emulation of graphics contexts to hold the foreground and
+ background colors used in a glyph string, while the some others
+ ports compute those colors directly based on the colors of the
+ string's face and its highlight, but only on X are graphics
+ contexts a data structure inherent to the window system.
+
COLOR ALLOCATION
- In X, pixel values for colors are not guaranteed to correspond to
- their individual components. The rules for converting colors into
- pixel values are defined by the visual class of each display opened
- by Emacs. When a display is opened, a suitable visual is obtained
- from the X server, and a colormap is created based on that visual,
- which is then used for each frame created.
+ In (and only in) X, pixel values for colors are not guaranteed to
+ correspond to their individual components. The rules for
+ converting colors into pixel values are defined by the visual class
+ of each display opened by Emacs. When a display is opened, a
+ suitable visual is obtained from the X server, and a colormap is
+ created based on that visual, which is then used for each frame
+ created.
The colormap is then used by the X server to convert pixel values
from a frame created by Emacs into actual colors which are output
@@ -202,6 +210,10 @@ along with GNU Emacs. If not, see
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
which is used to determine the color values for given pixel
values.
+ In other window systems supported by Emacs, color allocation is
+ handled by the window system itself, to whom Emacs simply passes 24
+ (or 32-bit) RGB values.
+
OPTIONAL FEATURES
While X servers and client libraries tend to come with many
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