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From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:10:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vaxn6tg.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1f9d43c5-e83f-47f8-bbed-15f0f96944b2@l14g2000yql.googlegroups.com

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> is there a way to name new GUI colors in Emacs, and get them listed in
> `list-color-display'? Something like this:
>
> (set-named-color "army green" "#4B5320")
>
> ELisp reference only talks about tty.
>

I don't believe so. The colour names are derived from the rgb.txt file
(normally in the /etc/X11 directory on most Linux systems. You could
possibly add your own colour names to this file, but it is prtty
extensive already. 

Tim


-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au


  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-20  8:59 Naming new GUI colors? Elena
2010-07-20 22:10 ` Tim X [this message]
2010-07-21 11:26   ` Elena
2010-07-22 18:12   ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-23 15:46   ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 16:55     ` despen
2010-07-23 21:04       ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 23:28         ` despen
2010-07-24  8:12           ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-24  0:01         ` Tim X
2010-07-26 13:33           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-26 13:50             ` despen
2010-07-26 19:08               ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-27 14:58                 ` Giacomo Boffi
2010-07-27 23:28                   ` despen
2010-07-28 13:12                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-07-23 23:50     ` Tim X

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