From: Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:12:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86mxtjmlme.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871vaxn6tg.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au
Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
> Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> is there a way to name new GUI colors in Emacs, and get them listed in
>> `list-color-display'? Something like this:
>>
>> (set-named-color "army green" "#4B5320")
>>
>> ELisp reference only talks about tty.
>>
>
> I don't believe so. The colour names are derived from the rgb.txt
> file (normally in the /etc/X11 directory on most Linux systems. You
> could possibly add your own colour names to this file, but it is
> prtty extensive already.
X built with default options from recent (4 or 5 years) reference only
a builtin, as at compile time, rgb database
afaict, no major linux distributions change this particular default (i
tried to change debian mantainers opinion on this respect, but failed)
ciao
g
--
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-22 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 8:59 Naming new GUI colors? Elena
2010-07-20 22:10 ` Tim X
2010-07-21 11:26 ` Elena
2010-07-22 18:12 ` Giacomo Boffi [this message]
2010-07-23 15:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 16:55 ` despen
2010-07-23 21:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 23:28 ` despen
2010-07-24 8:12 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-24 0:01 ` Tim X
2010-07-26 13:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-26 13:50 ` despen
2010-07-26 19:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-27 14:58 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-27 23:28 ` despen
2010-07-28 13:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 23:50 ` Tim X
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