From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Working with colors in --batch mode Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:22:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83o7rr2vjk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87fsd3id8e.fsf@gmail.com> <83pmc72wag.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21776"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 25 19:22:38 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p9Vdr-0005P2-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2022 19:22:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p9VdR-0006S7-5w; Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:22:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p9VdP-0006Rz-O6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p9VdP-0003pr-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:22:07 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=K3YJCmRauVs4Z1LAAvAzgwH8Buu7YzuobRCs32H0WVs=; b=SJwMpkPhDAV/ XHvmOt1lsdOJDDI8R5J+tY5MAXRYcp6n+tiNfiLVvrllKw6K7+1staNodYgeoceB3ByqGTHycFXs2 YNJzfyAcAhsmf6gFQDNPKEC+tduztCKCvEm2CH6yLLg2tZkttvxmWZu6QG5tFBHuDqPZ4iKD1h2+Y dXcucXlNbTAk3+1mMeQfoyYyI/fFyr4ogBtWnQ8rw6zVmkLn1+OqZ8MW2d9x9i9/eCHQQul7L2+53 ZrXkwmLSrt2qLh35ShPRsHcysRerzqa/cutwyCaSWVt31QkQM7sxZmlblbN1pRfidL0PBXGojouuh b+GdZa3YJnHpEt1Ywcdw1A==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p9VdO-0000ft-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:22:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83pmc72wag.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:05:59 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141938 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:05:59 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > Emacs doesn't (and cannot, I think) load X colors unless it > initializes the X display, and that doesn't happen in batch sessions. > Basically, batch sessions behave like a colorless TTY session. Btw, I don't really understand why you need the X machinery for this. Doesn't tty-color-standard-values do the job? $ emacs -batch --eval "(message \"%s\" (tty-color-standard-values \"#abcdef\"))" => (43947 52685 61423)