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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


  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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