Defining custom colors

Defining custom colors

[Michael Hudson]

I've just built emacs from CVS with Carbon support for MacOS X.

Nice!

Now I want to get the colors /just right/.

Specifically, I want to set the background to a color that's not in
the output of list-colors-display.

How can I do this?  I used to use X resources, but obviously that's
not going to work under Aqua.  I thought I used to know how this was
done, but I've forgotten and google isn't helping me.

Any help appreciated!

Cheers,
M.

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Re: Defining custom colors

[Colin Marquardt]

Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> 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.

HTH,
  Colin

Re: Defining custom colors

[Michael Hudson]

Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

> Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> 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.

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