Re: New patch allows 2d plots to use PM3D palette colors - please test

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > You might wish to consider making the leading character in the colorspec
> > and 'x' to be consistent with your work on the GD-related drivers, or to
> > make the GD-drivers consistent with this work and allow either a leading
> > 'x' or the leading '#'.
>
> The color specs in the gd driver pre-date my involvement.
> I had forgotten about them, although coincidentally I looked them up
> yesterday because Dan Sebald was asking how to set the background
> color.

That syntax in for gif/png is because # denotes a comment.

An idea would be to use the strings, allowing for colornames as well:
	set terminal png "red" "green" "blue" "#123456"
or maybe with a new keyword
	set terminal png colors "red" "green" "blue" "#123456"

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