From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rainbow-mode Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:56:55 -0500 Message-ID: <8739r2z1w8.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87mxpabjj3.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8762vyz5rl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289858240 18863 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2010 21:57:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:57:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 22:57:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI731-0001i0-Qn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:57:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34006 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI731-0004c7-B5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43402 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI72v-0004bw-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:57:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI72q-0007At-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.101]:48580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI72q-0007Ah-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:57:00 -0500 Original-Received: from furball (dhcp128036014113.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.113]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po42.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id oAFLuxiu029855 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:56:59 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 034DB1605A6; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:56:55 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:41:08 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:132667 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > So it was rejected because you didn't think it was generally useful > enough, basically? "Rejected" is obviously the wrong word; as Stefan says, all things being equal, it is preferable to put new non-infrastructure packages into elpa.gnu.org. > That's a judgement call, of course, but I think it sounds quite useful. > If you're fiddling with colours in CSS files, for instance, it would > speed up the editing/reload process -- at least the way I do it, which > is "er, this should be a bluish colour, so I'll try #404090", *save*, > *reload*, "no, darker", etc. > > Just seeing what the colour would be at once would be really neat. You could use the same argument for including all the other packages in elpa.gnu.org in the tarball. By the way, if there is real demand for a proper color selection tool, it ought to be trivial to write an Elisp binding for the GTK color selector.