From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors?
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:50:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwz9n4ft.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y6d22obz.fsf@lifelogs.com
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:10:03 +1000 Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>
> TX> 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.
>>>
>
> TX> I don't believe so. The colour names are derived from the rgb.txt file
> TX> (normally in the /etc/X11 directory on most Linux systems. You could
> TX> possibly add your own colour names to this file, but it is prtty
> TX> extensive already.
>
> 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.
>
I don't believe this is an emacs limitation, but rather a limitation of
how X defines colour names.
Tim
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 23:50 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
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 [this message]
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