From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: 15900@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15900: 24.3.50; foreground-color-at-point returns wrong results
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:26:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83li0qhxyl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87siuyxvw7.fsf@web.de>
> From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 03:04:56 +0100
>
> `foreground-color-at-point' doesn't return the expected result when
> there are several faces at point present.
>
> For example, on the red subject in a Gnus article buffer, or on a blue
> link in w3m, it returns "black". Looking at the code, I see that
> `foreground-color-at-point' uses
>
> (face-at-point)
>
> i.e., it looks only at one face and disregards the others. This is
> especially meaningless when this first face doesn't specify any
> foreground at all.
As you later discovered, even (face-at-point nil t) doesn't do the
job.
Which doesn't surprise me a bit: this kind of things cannot be done
reliably from Lisp, even at a price of the kind of obfuscated code
that face-at-point and foreground-color-at-point use. It is much
simpler to write a C primitive that simulates the display, then
returns the resulting face at a given character position, a simple and
straightforward task on the C level, something the display engine does
all the time.
> P.S. Some background: I'm working on an addition to stripe-buffer.el
> that changes the foreground color continuously, instead of changing the
> background. This is for better readability.
>
> I want to keep the foreground colors already present, so that e.g. links
> in w3m are still recognizable. Paragraphs in italic can be colored
> OTOH.
>
> So, what I need is a reliable `foreground-color-at-point'. Tips and
> alternatives welcome.
Why can't you detect that a portion of text is covered by specific
properties (e.g., one of a list of known properties), and leave those
portions alone?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-15 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-15 2:04 bug#15900: 24.3.50; foreground-color-at-point returns wrong results Michael Heerdegen
2013-11-15 2:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-11-15 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-11-15 22:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-11-16 0:26 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-16 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-16 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-17 2:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-11-17 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-17 5:35 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-11-17 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-22 13:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2013-11-16 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-16 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2013-11-17 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-17 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-17 22:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-11-18 3:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-18 7:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
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[not found] ` <<83li0ogv14.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-11-16 17:47 ` Drew Adams
2013-11-16 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <<83iovsgqhn.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-11-16 22:53 ` Drew Adams
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