* Re: set-background-color
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@ 2002-02-17 22:50 ` Richard Stallman
2002-02-18 6:01 ` set-background-color Eli Zaretskii
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-02-17 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
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.
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* Re: set-background-color
2002-02-17 22:50 ` set-background-color Richard Stallman
@ 2002-02-18 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2002-02-18 6:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: David.Kastrup, emacs-devel
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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.
I'm not sure: I have vague recollection that the current code was changed
during v21.1 development, for some good reason. I will look into this.
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