From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: list-colors-display and describe-face enhancement request Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:07:46 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F9567E2.4050008@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066756230 30973 80.91.224.253 (21 Oct 2003 17:10:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 19:10:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AC01b-00038q-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AC01M-0003qa-5A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzzs-0003QD-PE for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzzL-00037B-BR for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.59.10.2] (helo=chx400.switch.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ABzz2-0002uT-Ik for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1ABzyz-00025V-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:07:44 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:07:43 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 14 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066756062 30508794 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6012 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6012 Sandip Chitale recently posted his face-colors-rgb command to gnu.emacs.sources, which made me think that Emacs should provide a similar feature via the help-echo property: In the *Colors* buffer (after M-x list-colors-display) or in the *Help* buffer (after M-x describe-face), it would be nice if moving the mouse over a color name displayed its RGB values. And in the *Help* buffer (after M-x describe-face), the font/fontset name and inherited face should be hyperlinks to describe-font/fontset and describe-face as well. -- Kevin Rodgers