From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14984: 24.3.50; "-bg black" command line option should automatically set foreground color Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:43:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83ef1mqykj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hafc93pj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87sgq32hrt.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="135567"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: miles@gnu.org, 14984@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 15 16:44:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGz8-000Z4I-AU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:44:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42628 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGz7-0006DT-7V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyy-0006D1-PO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:44:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyw-0004eB-8O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyw-0004e3-14 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyv-00027S-U2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:44:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:44:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14984 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 14984-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14984.15658802078095 (code B ref 14984); Thu, 15 Aug 2019 14:44:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14984) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Aug 2019 14:43:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52147 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyN-00026T-1C for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45577) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyJ-00026G-Re for 14984@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyE-00044W-MT; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:43:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2598 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hyGyB-0003zh-42; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:43:15 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sgq32hrt.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:07:34 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165102 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:07:34 -0700 > Cc: 14984@debbugs.gnu.org > > > If one starts emacs with just "-bg black", it results in black text on a > > black background, although most colored emacs faces are ok as they > > automatically adapt the black background. > > > > This is obviously not so user friendly, and it would be good if emacs > > automatically chose a foreground color to match the background color > > (absent any explicit "-fg" option). > > Hm... Well, it might be more user-friendly, but I think it would be > slightly surprising to also change the -fg colour when you set -bg on > the command line. The foreground colour may be specified in .Xdefaults > or something. > > I guess if there is absolutely no foreground colour specification, then > setting the foreground upon -bg black would be friendlier, but what if > the user said -bf "#000001" (i.e., "almost black")? > > So I think special-casing one particular value to DWIM would be > difficult to justify, and I'm closing this bug report. I agree.