From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Global Font Lock by default Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:43:00 -0800 Message-ID: <200511012043.jA1Kh2KN002153@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> References: <200510311648.j9VGmgKN020532@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <878xw9r3tu.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <200510311747.j9VHl2KN024250@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <871x21r0v6.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <200510312048.j9VKm8KN006460@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> <87r7a1pf1h.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <200511010635.jA16ZNKN011265@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130878067 32575 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2005 20:47:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 20:47:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 01 21:47:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EX31E-00037u-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:46:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EX31D-0002k9-Od for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:46:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EX30x-0002jt-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:45:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EX30w-0002jh-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EX30w-0002jd-Aj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:45:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [128.195.1.36] (helo=scanner2.ics.uci.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EX2zf-0002TB-7t; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:44:31 -0500 Original-Received: from vino.ics.uci.edu (dann@vino.ics.uci.edu [128.195.11.198]) by scanner2.ics.uci.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id jA1Kh2KN002153; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:43:02 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:50:29 +0200") Original-Lines: 31 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-100, required 5, USER_IN_WHITELIST) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45266 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: Dan Nicolaescu > > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:35:21 -0800 > > > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > > Btw, whatever solution we decide upon, we should make sure that > > > invoking Emacs with --colors switch does TRT, even if the argument to > > > this option is different from the default number of supported colors > > > (the one in effect at dump time). > > > > Can you please check if everything works how you want it after we are > > done with having global-font-lock-mode on by default? > > I will try, but I have very little free time these days, so it might > be a while until I get to it. > > > I am not 100% sure I know what the intended behavior of --color is. > > That could mean that the documentation is not clear enough. Could you > tell what is unclear in the manual where it describes this option? Looking at it again it might be that there are some (simple) bugs in the way colors are initialized. For example: on a 256 colors xterm, what should list-colors-display show when using --color=8? The same as it would on a 8 color xterm (and no --color options)?