From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Colour selection in shr Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:54:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83d294vz4w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8761ex10e0.fsf@rabkins.net> <87wq7cza1n.fsf@rabkins.net> <83lhnsw5if.fsf@gnu.org> <871tpkkuxy.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83h9ygw1mv.fsf@gnu.org> <83egtkvzyo.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415044480 29848 80.91.229.3 (3 Nov 2014 19:54:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 03 20:54:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XlNhv-0002NG-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:54:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37059 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlNhv-00032j-FL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:54:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43024) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlNho-00030f-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:54:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlNhi-0007Dl-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:54:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:39398) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlNhi-0007DZ-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NEH00L00ASETE00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:52:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NEH00MNLB80WY00@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:52:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176306 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:42:26 +0100 > > > (face-background 'default) > > Something may be obvious to you that's not obvious to others. >"? > > Anyway, I just tried that with emacs -nw -q in an xterm on Debian Stale, > and the result was "unspecified-bg". Which AFAIU means your xterm is too old, and doesn't support the (relatively modern) interface used by Emacs to interrogate the background color. Or maybe Debian (who are known for customizing the heck out of Emacs behind your back) did something to xterm.el, like set xterm-extra-capabilities to some non-default value...