From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: 55623@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com
Subject: bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg"
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 13:23:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czg2aw0q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7zmjd2f.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu via's message of "Wed, 25 May 2022 15:17:44 +0800")
[புதன் மே 25, 2022] Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:
> Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In a tty frame and when using a theme that does not explicitly set the
>> default face's :foreground/:background [1], (face-attribute 'default :foreground)
>> returns "unspecified-fg". This value is surprising when the docstring
>> of `face-attribute' says,
>>
>> To ensure that the return value is always specified and absolute, use a
>> value of ‘default’ for INHERIT; this will resolve any unspecified or
>> relative values by merging with the ‘default’ face (which is always
>> completely specified). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> I opened the Elisp manual and tried to isearch for "unspecified-fg", but
>> it got me no matches. It would be nice if this return value was
>> documented somewhere.
>
> Isn't that a special color which means to use the terminal's default
> foreground (and/or background, in the case of unspecified-bg) colors?
>
> If so, it should be documented as that instead.
Indeed, "unspecified-fg/bg" means to use the terminal's default fg/bg.
But AFAICT, it is not specified in the manual anywhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-25 7:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-25 5:39 bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg" Visuwesh
2022-05-25 7:17 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-25 7:53 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-05-25 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-25 14:57 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-25 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-25 17:22 ` Visuwesh
2022-05-25 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-27 5:44 ` Adam Porter
2022-05-27 6:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-27 7:27 ` Adam Porter
2022-06-28 21:37 ` Stefan Kangas
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