From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: list-colors-display: display all color names Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:50:56 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4f3ab$Blat.v2.2.2$74b20f00@zahav.net.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104987304 17334 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 04:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 05:54:54 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmPfh-0007JU-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:54:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPqz-0002jx-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:06:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPqm-0002gB-UH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:06:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPqj-0002eb-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:06:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPqj-0002eJ-Hw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmPeJ-0000dU-Jo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:53:27 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-250-9.inter.net.il [83.130.250.9]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id DLX40425 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:53:15 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Drew Adams" X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31935 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:31935 > From: "Drew Adams" > Cc: > Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:46:41 -0800 > > Also, we could add more text to the *Colors* buffer telling users > about related facilities. But I doubt that this is a grave problem. > Someone who wouldn't hesitate to modify colors one bit at a time is > probably a hacker anyway, and hackers could well be expected to look > for related functions. > > Only if we don't make it easy to modify colors a little bit at a time will > that remain the domain of hackers only. If we make it _easy_ to modify > colors incrementally (e.g. slightly more red, slightly lighter with no > change in relative RGB...), then anyone "wouldn't hesitate to modify colors > one bit at a time", and more people might be interested in related color > functions. I think this has nothing to do with how easy it is to change colors. I think only hackers and color freaks modify colors one bit at a time.