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From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] :  Cannot see what is written on modeline
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 09:09:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh7j0p4tq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-130c34c2-be04-4a7b-bf56-4bc9953a2a99-1621324540375@3c-app-mailcom-bs13

> Could emacs internally figure out the colour settings and determine if
> the contrast between the foreground and background is high enough.
> And if not high enough to change the foreground and background colour.

It could but that would prevent such settings being made on purpose.
AFAICT your current problems are due to Xresource settings, which are
usually things the user sets explicitly, so it would be odd for Emacs to
ignore/override explicit user settings.

> Particularly when user supplies the -q option whilst debugging. 

`-q` is not for debugging: `-Q` is.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 18:16 Cannot see what is written on modeline wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 22:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-17 23:02   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-22  4:29     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18  7:55   ` tomas
2021-05-18  8:02     ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 11:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 12:12         ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 12:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:01             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:09             ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:19               ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:03           ` Drew Adams
2021-05-18 14:33             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:45               ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:11                 ` tomas
2021-05-18 15:45                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-17 23:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:41   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 23:44     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:49       ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  0:12         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18  0:25           ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  4:28             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-18  7:55               ` RE: [External] : " wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:09                 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-18 15:24                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-19  7:53                     ` Robert Thorpe
2021-05-19  8:50                       ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 13:13                 ` Óscar Fuentes

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