Hi Charles Acknin wrote: > Why exactly should we add a byte to PVTS(r,p).rend? It seems to me > that we're already able to represent 256 different combinations per > character, don't we have some bits left here for the highlighting? > Put differently, is mrxvt already using the whole attribute spectrum? >
I don't know how many bytes are used currently but a byte means maybe 256 combinaisons, but only 8 flags (thus 8 attributes)! So if ever we have already 8 attributes/flags and we add a new one, then we need a new bit (which means a new byte as stuffs are usually processed byte by byte). Jehan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
