From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9402: list-colors-display Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:38 -0400 Message-ID: <87y5y9nh7t.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87obz83v0x.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <838vqcf086.fsf@gnu.org> <834o0yg5cm.fsf@gnu.org> <8762ldvs89.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87wrdt1rnw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E5E8535.8090609@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314843177 1055 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2011 02:12:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 02:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9402@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 01 04:12:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywlw-0005qH-9h for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywlv-0006m5-7v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywlr-0006lv-TT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywlq-00024U-UJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywlq-00024P-PQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywp0-0003FU-K6; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:16:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Chong Yidong Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:16:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9402 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9402-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9402.131484335812477 (code B ref 9402); Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:16:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9402) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Sep 2011 02:15:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywow-0003FC-CW for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.146]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qywot-0003F5-TM for 9402@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp-128-36-14-41.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.41]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-05.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p812CcpE014469 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4E5E8535.8090609@swipnet.se> ("Jan \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Dj\=C3\=A4rv\=22's\?\= message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:02:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.146 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:16:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:50507 Archived-At: Jan Dj=C3=A4rv writes: > Well, Emacs does not try to avoid that either. On a non-gtk, but X > Emacs do emacs -Q -bg lightgoldenrod2 > > and then mark some text. The region face will be invisible. The two cases differ. If the user changes a color via Emacs, she should be responsible for color clashes. But if the user changes system colors outside Emacs (e.g. via a desktop theme), and that leads to a color clash in Emacs because Emacs only looks at the highlight color, that can be considered an Emacs problem. I don't think this is a huge problem, but it's certainly worth looking into at some point.