list-colors-display: filter same adjecent colors

[Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com>]

This was another conversation from November.  

See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-11/msg00189.html

Currently a color in the color list is not shown if the previous color
was the same numeric color value.  This patch filters out the color if
the *names* are the same (i.e., "gray" and "grey" are the same,
whitespace and letter case are ignored).  

The benefit of this change is that under w32 we have added colors based
on the current desktop theme.  Some of these colors may be the same but
logically be different colors.

As an added benefit, on my slow machine, the patch runs faster than the
original code.


Index: emacs/lisp/facemenu.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/facemenu.el,v
retrieving revision 1.71
diff -u -b -r1.71 facemenu.el
--- emacs/lisp/facemenu.el      1 Sep 2003 15:45:11 -0000       1.71
+++ emacs/lisp/facemenu.el      18 Nov 2003 18:04:08 -0000
@@ -508,12 +510,19 @@

 (defun facemenu-color-equal (a b)
   "Return t if colors A and B are the same color.
-A and B should be strings naming colors.
-This function queries the display system to find out what the color
-names mean.  It returns nil if the colors differ or if it can't
-determine the correct answer."
-  (cond ((equal a b) t)
-       ((equal (color-values a) (color-values b)))))
+A and B should be strings naming colors.  These names are
+downcased, stripped of spaces and the string `grey' is turned
+into `gray'.  This accomidates alternative spellings of colors
+found commonly in the list.  It returns nil if the colors differ."
+  (progn
+    (setq a (replace-regexp-in-string "grey" "gray"
+            (replace-regexp-in-string " " ""
+             (downcase a)))
+         b (replace-regexp-in-string "grey" "gray"
+            (replace-regexp-in-string " " ""
+             (downcase b))))
+
+    (equal a b)))

 (defun facemenu-add-face (face &optional start end)
   "Add FACE to text between START and END.


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want.
http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools