From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: Steve Wainstead <swain@socialserve.com>
Cc: 14719@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14719: 24.3; Crashing when setting frames to random colors
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:22:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d16enc9m.fsf@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8CC1741-A421-4854-95C8-D51214311E70@socialserve.com> (Steve Wainstead's message of "Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:00:09 -0700")
Steve Wainstead <swain@socialserve.com> writes:
> I have a Lisp function that is run every time I do M-x compile:
>
> ;; choose random colors every time we compile, just for fun
> (defun sw-make-random-hex-color-string ()
> "Return a string in the form of #FFFFFF. Choose the number for
> #xffffff randomly using Emacs Lisp's builtin function (random)."
> ;; seed our random number generator: current datetime plus Emacs's
> ;; process ID
> (random t)
> (format "#%06x" (random #xffffff))
> )
>
> (defun sw-randomize-frame-colors ()
> "Change foreground and background colors of the current frame to
> random colors."
> (interactive)
> (let
> (
> (fg-color (sw-make-random-hex-color-string))
> (bg-color (sw-make-random-hex-color-string))
> (color-distance #x3fffff)
> )
> (set-foreground-color fg-color)
> (set-background-color bg-color)
> )
> )
>
> I *think* sometimes the color values come out the same and it causes
> Emacs to crash. I'm not sure because it's almost instantaneous when I
> run compile.
Hi, sorry it's taken so long for someone to come back to you.
I can't reproduce this crash, are you still experiencing it?
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-25 22:00 bug#14719: 24.3; Crashing when setting frames to random colors Steve Wainstead
2013-07-03 17:54 ` bug#14719: Full lisp used that causes the crash Steve Wainstead
2013-07-03 19:21 ` bug#14719: Crash log Steve Wainstead
2017-09-25 13:22 ` Alan Third [this message]
2017-09-25 13:30 ` bug#14719: 24.3; Crashing when setting frames to random colors Steve Wainstead
2017-09-25 16:52 ` Alan Third
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