From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs color names Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:48:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83ocgmp6cq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d3x2cql4.fsf@garydjones.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273607504 21362 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2010 19:51:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:51:44 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 11 21:51:43 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBvUR-0000Tk-Ah for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 21:51:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34234 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OBvUQ-0000Jy-PG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:51:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45070 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OBvTT-000063-Pa for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBvTS-0002hd-LC for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:63249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OBvTS-0002gt-Db for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 15:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L2900900TEE7900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 22:50:33 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.0.144]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L29005FPTS8LEE0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 May 2010 22:50:33 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <83d3x2cql4.fsf@garydjones.name> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73636 Archived-At: > From: Gary > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:09:59 +0200 > Cc: > > Emanuel Schmid writes: > > > Currently I don't get decent colour names if I'm running through putty, > > as described in > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PuTTY for emacs 21 and 22 > > TBH I don't think it's exclusive to putty. I also get (mostly) > incomprehensible names when I try to use completion when customising a > face - > black blue brightblack brightblue brightcyan > brightgreen brightmagenta brightred brightwhite brightyellow > color-100 color-101 color-102 color-103 color-104 > (etc.) That's normal, assuming that you use a 256-color xterm. Why is that a problem? If you need to know how each color looks like, just use "M-x list-colors-display RET".