On 09.01.18 07:55, Christian Brabandt wrote: > IIRC, rgb.txt came from the X11 Server sources and those colors were not > defined there. > > Anyhow, I cannot find it in the X11 Server source and in some commits > they removed all references to that file. So it might no longer exist in > a maintained form.
On my slightly dated debian install: $ diff -w /home/src/vim/runtime/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt 1c1 < ! $XConsortium: rgb.txt,v 10.41 94/02/20 18:39:36 rws Exp $ --- > ! $Xorg: rgb.txt,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:00 cpqbld Exp $ 477a478 > 215 7 81 DebianRed $ wc -l /home/src/vim/runtime/rgb.txt /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt 753 /home/src/vim/runtime/rgb.txt 754 /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt So 752 of 752 colours are identical in name an hue, from 1994 to a couple of years ago. (Most likely till today, too.) On 09.01.18 10:07, Boyko Bantchev wrote: > The Wikipedia article titled "X11 color names" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names > > says w.r.t. the so called "X11 colours" the following: > > "Color names are not standardized by Xlib or the X11 protocol. > The list does not show continuity either in selected color > values or in color names, and some color triplets have multiple > names. Despite this, graphic designers and others got used to > them, making it practically impossible to introduce a different > list." Providing multiple names for a particular shading is the technique for merging colour lists from multiple vendors into a common standard, and for allowing American dialect spelling of grey in addition to English. The article's uncertainty over continuity is difficult to credit. I have been using DarkSlateGrey, wheat3, and a few others since SunOS 4.1.3 in around 1990, through SolarisX86, and now various linux distros. I recognise a lot of the colours from 1990, such as the goldenrod variants, salmon, chocolate, and all the greys. That is confirmed in the third paragraph of the article cited above: ======================================================================== "Approximately the full list as is available today shipped with X11R4 on 29 January 1989, ..." ======================================================================== I can't comment on vim's private colour names - I wouldn't know how to invoke them, as I do all my colour setting in the xterm. Erik -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
