From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 16:45:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87v97gxfqw.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <20210518075559.GA11623@tuxteam.de> <83lf8cs162.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26841"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:/CWDvrbpOTQFpcwOhdT/tBgWGB4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 16:53:00 2021 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 1lj15g-0006lx-Th for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 16:53:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38704 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj15f-0001TM-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 10:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53898) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj0yd-000383-GY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 10:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lj0yb-0003HH-5i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 10:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lj0yW-0006zY-Lg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 16:45:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129891 Archived-At: 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? The user is always in power. > I am of the view that emacs should by default set such things as the mode-line > itself and not allow X-Environment to take over. The purpose of .Xresources is to take over the default colors of Emacs (or any other X application). Better ask yourself why do you have an .Xresources file with settings you don't like.