From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default colours in X11 frames?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wsjfjrf8.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vdyz9y5m.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (James Cloos's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:14:38 -0400")
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
>>>>>> "David" == David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
>
> David> Do
> David> (color-values "blue")
> David> and
> David> (color-values "firebrick")
>
> David> return the same values on pre- and post- merge builds for you?
>
> Thanks. That was the cluebat I needed.
>
> It allowed me to narrow the problem down to XParseColor(3x).
>
> In effect, instead of matching the equivilent of the pcre /^colour$/i
> it is doing the equivilent of the pcre /^colour/i on a shuffle of the
> colour list.
>
> So when I ask for 'firebrick' it gived me 'firebrick2'. And for 'blue'
> it returns 'blue violet' aka 'BlueViolet'.
>
> I've tracked down the bug (in the X server) and will fix it.
Will you fix it in Emacs or in X? If the latter: is there a workaround
one could use in Emacs for people having an unfixed X? If the former:
will you report this to whoever is working on the X server?
Thanks,
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 18:44 Default colours in X11 frames? James Cloos
2008-07-20 22:28 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-07-21 2:34 ` Adrian Robert
2008-07-21 13:14 ` James Cloos
2008-07-21 13:30 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-07-21 20:13 ` James Cloos
2008-07-22 4:04 ` James Cloos
2008-07-22 17:16 ` James Cloos
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