From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:46:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6d22obz.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871vaxn6tg.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au
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.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 15:46 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 [this message]
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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