This is with the default spacemacs theme. Can you tell which one is the terminal and which one the GUI?
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Col...
Emacs does have the feature you want. Perhaps your setup wasn't supported. Which terminal/os were you on?
macOS with iTerm2 and then Alacritty.
Now I am even more confused why it doesn't work well for me.
(I need to learn how Emacs manages its windows; Mostly I have one Treemacs buffer open on the left, then a single large editor window with Olivetti mode on the right.)
Possible reasons:
1. (macOS + inside terminal) isn't a common workflow for emacs contributors, or perhaps for people with that workflow working with 256 colors isn't an issue
2. people who want that workflow who care about having 24 bit colors didn't bother to file a bug report (did you?)
Bitter pill, but I hope it helps: as a beginner to an ecosystem, if you are going to be opinioniated about having an unusual workflow, you are always going to run into problems. If you are running Emacs locally, just run it in GUI mode, that's what most people do.
1. 5K retina display (other Mac owners seem to share the experience)
2. A font with a lot of graphemes (those without emoji seem to render faster)
3. The synchronous nature of LSP; I still don't get it why LSP can't work asynchronously in Emacs -- it does in VIM.
Hence me asking about terminal mode where it also works rather confusingly to me (I mean the colors).
> (macOS + inside terminal) isn't a common workflow for emacs contributors
As a guy who worked on OSS before -- and wants to do it again -- I am never feeling entitled to other people's work. I just wonder why those scenarios are supported in the first place (if no contributors are interested in making them work well).
> as a beginner to an ecosystem, if you are going to be opinioniated about having an unusual workflow, you are always going to run into problems
Fair enough and I don't think it's a bitter pill at all, I appreciate the feedback. But again, I am wondering why the supposedly first-class option (GUI) is also having problems. :(
> 2. people who want that workflow who care about having 24 bit colors didn't bother to file a bug report (did you?)
I wouldn't even know where to begin. The whole community and ecosystem seem extremely foreign to me and I never even got as far as to find a bug report template (admittedly I didn't try very hard). There's just something... alienating about this community, especially Emacs devs. Maybe I am wrong, I hope I am wrong but, just an accumulated feeling.
In any case, the reason I am getting a bit ticked off is that Emacs is supposedly hugely popular. I'd expect a 5K screen and some richer fonts to not trip it but perhaps you're right that macOS isn't a focus.
You might have fun reading the article linked here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830206
>The synchronous nature of LSP; I still don't get it why LSP can't work asynchronously in Emacs
Oh god, that is actually terrible.
> I never even got as far as to find a bug report template
The official way to file a bug report is M-x report-emacs-bug.
>especially Emacs devs
What's that feeling based on?