From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-background-color Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:50:46 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <200202172250.g1HMok212950@santafe.santafe.edu> References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1013987132 25400 195.204.10.66 (17 Feb 2002 23:05:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Feb 2002 23:05:32 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16caN9-0006ba-00 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:05:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16caAQ-0005f7-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:52:22 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16ca8t-0005UM-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from santafe.santafe.edu (santafe [192.12.12.2]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1HMolu17276; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:50:47 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by santafe.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g1HMok212950; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:50:46 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: santafe.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@santafe using -f Original-To: David.Kastrup@t-online.de In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on 17 Feb 2002 14:49:46 +0100) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1279 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1279 In interactive usage, set-background-color provides completion, to ease the burden of typing the long color names. The fact that you cannot choose hex notation there is a side effect of that completion. I think completion is more important than the ability to use arbitrary hex values interactively, in this case. It ought to be possible to support both forms, and provide completion that works only in the case of the color names and is a no-op for # colors. That would be a good thing to do. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel