From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Naming new GUI colors? Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:28:25 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1f9d43c5-e83f-47f8-bbed-15f0f96944b2@l14g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <871vaxn6tg.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> <87y6d22obz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d3ud3o6n.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291849898 4620 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:11:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 00:11:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQTAc-00046y-7s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:11:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTAb-0003Cd-Fl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:11:33 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:28:25 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="zonOWvH8iMOSVG4S2eKuOA"; logging-data="14194"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19HWia4pZH2ZOieqGw+uuQdolmZ8ZpwrK0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:drwkhhLQIRY3SX4X8NnPQCrMU/g= sha1:I289W6B/8A6+NZv5V+LZKPZ650I= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180002 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76192 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:55:54 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: > > d> Ted Zlatanov writes: >>> 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. > > d> I think it would be ridiculous for Emacs to go on a color naming spree. > > This is a user facility (like defface). Emacs only has to provide a > get/set/list API. Emacs will not define new colors (or if it does, > that's a separate discussion). Still not convinced Emacs has a "bad" limitation. User defined colors (if actually useful) should be defined outside Emacs. Emacs is not the only application using colors. > d> There is already a number of lists of standard color names. > d> There's one for X11, there's one for html, I'm sure there are lots more. > > Yes, but none of them have "my favorite red for alerts" which is what a > user would define (in their native language). The purpose of the color should not be confused with the name of the color. (set-face-foreground 'alert-face "PaleVioletRed")