From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Default colours in X11 frames? Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:19 +0200 Message-ID: <86wsjfjrf8.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <4883BC0F.5060302@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216647041 4836 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 13:30:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 15:31:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKvU5-0000FT-DU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:31:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKvTC-00046j-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKvT5-00044Q-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKvT3-00042x-Nh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34178 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKvT3-00042l-9i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:30:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]:39208) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKvT2-0000Zt-MD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 31832 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2008 13:30:19 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by quinx.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Jul 2008 13:30:18 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A44EC8EEEF; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:30:19 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:14:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.8.1.11; VDF: 7.0.5.143; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101069 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: >>>>>> "David" == David De La Harpe Golden 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