Re: emacs 21: "revert buffer" dialog doesn't set font color

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:58:25AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Rob, is it posible to request Debian users to include with the
> Emacs-related bug reports the info that we get from report-emacs-bug?

Here you have it:

Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list,
and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.

In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-25 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  i386-debian-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr 
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var/lib 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usrr/share/man --with-pop=yes --with-x=yes 
--with-x-toolkit=athena'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nl_BE@euro
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <escape> r e p <tab> o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
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> > Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I've set emacs to use grey on black color (as in the console). When
> > > I use the "revert buffer" command from the file menu, I get a dialog
> > > that's entirely unreadable.  That is because the new emacs sets this
> > > dialog to have a grey background, but it doesn't set a foreground
> > > color (font color), which results in a grey on grey dialog. The only
> > > thing that are visible are the borders of the buttons.
> 
> Please tell the details of how did you customize Emacs to use grey on
> black.  Was it through X resources, in your ~/.emacs file, or by some
> other means?

I used X resources [1]. I checked with customizing my ~/.emacs, and the
dialog is better that way - it's black text on a grey blackground.
However, that also means it ignores the ~/.emacs color scheme for dialogs.
That's not too much too worry about yet. What bothers me more is that the
menubar also ignores ~/.emacs color settings, while it does not ignore
.Xresources color settings, so that's why I was using the latter.

> > > That shot was taken with the -1 revision, but it's
> > > similar with -2, only the buttons have a 3d-ish look with that
> > > because of the different xaw library used.
> 
> What are those -1 and -2 revisions?

Those are the debian package revisions; -1 was built with XFree86 libxaw
IIRC and -2 with xaw3d (Rob, correct me if I'm wrong).


Regards,

Filip

[1] Emacs*Foreground: grey
    Emacs*Background: black
    Emacs*cursorColor: gold
    Emacs*pointerColor: gold

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