From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Hudson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Defining custom colors Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:17:22 GMT Organization: University of Bristol, UK Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034691952 28860 80.91.224.249 (15 Oct 2002 14:25:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 181Sdp-0007UE-00 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:25:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 181SeF-000745-00; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:26:15 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!bath.ac.uk!unknown User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106085 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2632 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2632 Colin Marquardt writes: > Michael Hudson writes: > > > Specifically, I want to set the background to a color that's not in > > the output of list-colors-display. > > With something like "#1122FF" you can specify the RGB values in hex. So I can! So long as I use M-: (set-backgound-color "..."); M-x set-background-color doesn't let me. Although it seems to be #BBGGRR, which isn't what I expected (an endian-ness bug?!) Cheers, M. -- Hmmm... its Sunday afternoon: I could do my work, or I could do a Fourier analysis of my computer's fan noise. -- Amit Muthu, ucam.chat (from Owen Dunn's summary of the year)