From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors? Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:04:16 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87d3ud3o6n.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <1f9d43c5-e83f-47f8-bbed-15f0f96944b2@l14g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <871vaxn6tg.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87y6d22obz.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291849761 3933 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:09:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:09:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:09:11 2010 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 1PQT8I-0002t1-6R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:09:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQT8G-0001sT-TQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:09:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net ttcmjDjSL8dh7meS/tVUfTQJxE9AZU5crCDJ9psNtRe9M2Xc1m78Gv836s8rA6UwnqAsHMSwm5kRKS2DAgUZJ4lLM60M9R2EmU9z9C+ZQdcACApzMsyDVwtUI7xg/9vu Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:04:17 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: 77DWCr5c3JwCO74X9sMmowqoFDQEG8gn2y4CgyrspPA= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:0YzBq/oUhSPihdZOh39RxN1Otmk= sha1:L/zRa5ZMT8NkzoAQmA9yyDug7uI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: rv/o1CYPli1Etz5IYYk3+ZR4TfUHh+B9ajW8C4vzv8Q= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179998 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:76188 Archived-At: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:55:54 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: d> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> That seems like a pretty bad limitation, especially where English is not >> spoken. Emacs should at least allow naming colors (as opposed to faces) >> IMHO. d> I think it would be ridiculous for Emacs to go on a color naming spree. This is a user facility (like defface). Emacs only has to provide a get/set/list API. Emacs will not define new colors (or if it does, that's a separate discussion). d> There is already a number of lists of standard color names. d> There's one for X11, there's one for html, I'm sure there are lots more. Yes, but none of them have "my favorite red for alerts" which is what a user would define (in their native language). Ted