From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#352: set-cursor-color docstring vs. list-colors-display "showroom" Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:20:29 +0800 Message-ID: <87fxrumiki.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: jidanni@jidanni.org, 352@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212526114 29579 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2008 20:48:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:48:34 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 22:49:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K3dRJ-00012u-Qw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:49:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51105 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dQX-0003aU-Je for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPZ-0002BD-4C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPT-00022s-MB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51405 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3dPT-00022P-03 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:35535) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3dPS-000258-Kt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m53Kl4Ns030700; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:47:06 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m53KU3o9026108; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:30:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: jidanni@jidanni.org Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:30:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 352 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.121252455024789 (code B ref -1); Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:30:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 3 Jun 2008 20:22:30 +0000 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m53KMQPi024781 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:22:27 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d1V-0002Tu-OW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d1U-0002Rc-He for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32960 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K3d1U-0002RM-Ao for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5]:47821 helo=blingymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K3d1U-0005or-DE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from jidanni1.jidanni.org (122-127-33-182.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.33.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blingymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3430614D756 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:22:20 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:47:13 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:18241 Archived-At: |set-cursor-color is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `frame.el'. |(set-cursor-color COLOR-NAME) | |Set the text cursor color of the selected frame to COLOR-NAME. |When called interactively, prompt for the name of the color to use. |To get the frame's current cursor color, use `frame-parameters'. Hogwash. M-: (frame-parameters) doesn't mention anything about cursor colors. By the way, please add to the above docstring that one can use M-x list-colors-display to see a choice of colors. (No, I don't want to use the "Easy Customization Interface".) Also in Info, do mention set-cursor-color and list-colors-display on "19.15 Displaying the Cursor". Wait, I did (set-cursor-color "black") and (set-cursor-color "DarkRed") but now the character underneath isn't bright enough. So mention that one also needs to adjust the color or the character underneath and how to do that, in the above docstring. Yes, one could use M-x customize but M-x customize is not necessarily enjoyable to use for every user. Yes, the contrast looked great in the list-colors-display "showroom", but when one uses set-cursor-color, the underlying character is not thus adjusted. OK, now we are stuck with an ugly cursor, and M-x set-cursor-color won't take nil for an answer to at least give us back the default cursor color, whatever that was.