From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#47313: 27.1; highlight functions should accept colors too Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:01:45 +0200 Message-ID: <8335wn9fmu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9Z87HwaBASS5vyB3il_aT_xphTn0UzaFsdlKvuDcPwWwUIUcwhJJj2Kv1tLFasLle8mPX2Rgo9KQ3Xo4KwsK6WqkGG5wRNKGwyXGiwPrg9M=@protonmail.com> <83v99j9jnu.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7l39i5q.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36462"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 47313@debbugs.gnu.org To: scame Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 20:02:26 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPoo-0009Ol-52 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:02:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54712 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPom-0007JQ-PM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPoQ-0007Iq-Cb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPoQ-0005x5-42 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPoQ-0006ID-1k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:02:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:02:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47313 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 47313-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B47313.161643971023633 (code B ref 47313); Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 47313) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Mar 2021 19:01:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58670 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPoD-00068r-Sx for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:01:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48614) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPoB-00063n-NL for 47313@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:01:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPo6-0005kM-7K; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:01:42 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4717 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lOPo4-0007qd-NH; Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:01:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from scame on Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:39:11 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:202861 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:39:11 +0000 > From: scame > Cc: "47313@debbugs.gnu.org" <47313@debbugs.gnu.org> > > > We could try that, but I fear that the result of showing many faces in > > the same buffer one besides the other will look ugly, while displaying > > them one face per line would make a very long buffer, scrolling > > through which could be impractical. > > It can't be uglier than the completions of read-color which is pretty bad. I think it can. But again, you are welcome to try that, perhaps I'm wrong. > It's a cacophony of colors and some of them are hard to read: > > https://i.imgur.com/NtIDihs.png I don't see any cacophony, and have no difficulty reading the names. Besides, when you see the color itself, why does it matter how it is named? > > IMO the list-colors-display UI is much better even if it's longer (and if > it's a completion list then it's easy to narrow it down): > > https://www.valenciatech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/gnu-emacs-list-colors-display.png FWIW, I'd be annoyed by the length of this long before I found the color I was after. But that's me.