From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors?
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:08:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aape12pa.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: icocdu9wtq.fsf@verizon.net
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:50:09 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote:
d> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
D> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:01:29 +1000 Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>>
TX> You can define any colour you want using the existing mechanism by using
TX> the # hex notation. You are not restricted to just using the 'named'
TX> colours.
>>
>> Most users don't speak hex. I don't want to parse hex every time I look
>> at my face definitions.
d> Does this do what you want?
d> (setq my-red "#FF0033")
d> (set-face-foreground 'default my-red)
Yes. Amazingly, I never thought of just using a variable there. Thanks.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 19:08 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
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 [this message]
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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