From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Font-lock.el uses strange value for min-colors (Was x-display-color-cells returns wrong number) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:39:47 +0100 Sender: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <610DD05E-6B64-11D8-96B2-00039363E640@swipnet.se> References: <14AB9AB8-6A0E-11D8-99DB-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <2914-Sun29Feb2004201424+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <20040229220341.GA9343@fencepost> <7494-Mon01Mar2004080015+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078135466 24207 80.91.224.253 (1 Mar 2004 10:04:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: harder@ifa.au.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 11:04:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AxkHV-0003uQ-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 11:04:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AxkBS-0003dC-Fg for gebp-emacs-pretest-bug@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 04:57:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Axjw5-0008WU-Pr for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 04:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1AxjvW-0008N6-GV for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 04:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.115.192.53] (helo=mail2.norrnet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Axjuy-0008CP-0o; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 04:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com (stubby.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.94]) by mail2.norrnet.net (BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall) with ESMTP id C9A3FDCB14; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:40:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i21AVR2R004042; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:31:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <7494-Mon01Mar2004080015+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) X-BeenThere: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-pretest-bug-bounces+gebp-emacs-pretest-bug=gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:2267 gmane.emacs.devel:20216 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20216 > I know that the list of colors displayed by list-colors-display on X > is fixed (see my message earlier in this thread), but I always > thought, I don't know why, that the length of that list is near the > number returned by display-color-cells. > > If this is not true, one may ask what is so ``interesting'' about the > specific colors we show as opposed to those we don't. For example, > when I work on Irix, I generally like to use the Irix-specific colors > (that are not shown by list-colors-display, of course) because they > are much more pleasant to my eyes. So to me, those unshown colors are > much more ``interesting'' than those we show, in that specific case. Emacs could read the rgb.txt file and add colors from that file into the list. Or better, execute showrgb and catch the output. That way Emacs does not have to worry where the rgb.txt file is. But this may too slow, I haven't tested it. I assume those Irix colors are shown by showrgb. Jan D.