From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14984: 24.3.50; "-bg black" command line option should automatically set foreground color Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 21:07:34 -0700 Message-ID: <87sgq32hrt.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <87hafc93pj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="219091"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 14984@debbugs.gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 15 06:08:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hy73c-000uri-AE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38246 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hy73Z-0006oW-Qv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:08:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34267) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1hy73T-0006o6-Ip for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hy73S-0008LP-Av for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:41458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hy73S-0008LD-5j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hy73R-0004SJ-Vh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:08:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14984 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 14984-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14984.156584206217085 (code B ref 14984); Thu, 15 Aug 2019 04:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14984) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Aug 2019 04:07:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50276 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hy737-0004RV-Op for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:07:41 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:34414) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hy736-0004RN-Do for 14984@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from 24-104-73-23-ip-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([24.104.73.23] helo=sandy) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hy732-0007aS-EI; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 06:07:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87hafc93pj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:33:28 +0900") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165034 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > The Emacs defaults are white background and black foreground colors. > > If one starts emacs with just "-bg black", it results in black text on a > black background, although most colored emacs faces are ok as they > automatically adapt the black background. > > This is obviously not so user friendly, and it would be good if emacs > automatically chose a foreground color to match the background color > (absent any explicit "-fg" option). Hm... Well, it might be more user-friendly, but I think it would be slightly surprising to also change the -fg colour when you set -bg on the command line. The foreground colour may be specified in .Xdefaults or something. I guess if there is absolutely no foreground colour specification, then setting the foreground upon -bg black would be friendlier, but what if the user said -bf "#000001" (i.e., "almost black")? So I think special-casing one particular value to DWIM would be difficult to justify, and I'm closing this bug report. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no