Re: High Sierra Beta 5 Display Problems

[Bob Halley <halley@play-bow.org>]

On Aug 8, 2017, at 15:13, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob, is there anything else in ~/Library/Colors?

No, it's otherwise empty. 

> From the looks of
> the code in ns_get_color Emacs searches *all* colour lists for any
> that contain the name it’s looking for, not just Emacs.clr. Maybe
> there’s a corrupt one that’s causing the search to fail early?

No

There's also no /Library/Colors, and /System/Library/Colors has nothing called "Emacs".  The system library colors seem to have deeper structure; they are directories not files, contain localizations, and seem otherwise different than the simple format that the API emacs calls writes.  I looked for notices of changes here but didn't find anything.  I'm no expert in macOS development though!

Also, I know that it's the file in ~/Library/Colors that emacs makes because I see emacs create it, and if I delete it the problem goes away on the next start, so it's not some other file that's bad.  It's like the system library can write the file but no longer correctly read it.

I looked for documentation about changes in this area but didn't see anything either.