From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ps-default-bg shouldn't be used for printing by default Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183696819 9531 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2007 04:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 04:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: cs-usenet@arcor.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 06:40:18 2007 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1I6fc5-0001y9-Sg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:40:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6fc5-0003al-G0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:40:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6fao-0002SS-7o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6fan-0002RR-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6fan-0002RJ-6e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6fam-0007K1-Ts for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6fam-0006SD-I3; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:38:52 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Christian Schlauer on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 22:22:43 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:74374 Archived-At: The problem is that ink jet printers today are mostly colour ink jet printers, and even if I want the faces of a buffer to appear in colour on paper, I am not interested in the background colour of the frame. It is a waste of ink and _time_ as it takes much longer to print the pages (the same holds for colour laser printers: a waste of toner and _time_). My proposal: change the default of `ps-default-bg' to white colour or some equivalent expression. That seems like a valid argument. Does anyone disagree?