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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 17:11:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210518151143.GJ11623@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v97gxfqw.fsf@telefonica.net>

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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 04:45:27PM +0200, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> wael-zwaiter@gmx.com writes:
> 
> >> Then you (or something you loaded) customized that face.
> >>
> >> The point in telling you about `M-x customize-face' was
> >> that you can use that to revert to the uncustomized
> >> (default) appearance, and you can use it to customize
> >> faces to any appearance you like.
> >
> > Should emacs allow X-Resource customisations when the result is not good
> > because it does not take into account computations based on the contrast
> > ratio?
> 
> Yes, of course. Why Emacs should ignore what it is requested to do?

Definitely.

How should a program know whether some config is intentional?
Given the dazzling diversity of displays out there, "not good"
can depend on many factors.

Cheers
 - t

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 18:16 Cannot see what is written on modeline wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 22:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-17 23:02   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-22  4:29     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18  7:55   ` tomas
2021-05-18  8:02     ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 11:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 12:12         ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 12:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:01             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:09             ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:19               ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:03           ` Drew Adams
2021-05-18 14:33             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:45               ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:11                 ` tomas [this message]
2021-05-18 15:45                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-17 23:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:41   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 23:44     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:49       ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  0:12         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18  0:25           ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  4:28             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-18  7:55               ` RE: [External] : " wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:09                 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18 15:24                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-19  7:53                     ` Robert Thorpe
2021-05-19  8:50                       ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 13:13                 ` Óscar Fuentes

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