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Re: customize-themes doesn't allow backquote or :inherit
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David De La Harpe Golden |
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Re: customize-themes doesn't allow backquote or :inherit |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:30:18 +0100 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100917 Icedove/3.0.8 |
On 18/10/10 18:54, Yavuz wrote:
Thinking a bit laterally, there are 2 alternate mechanisms that
could help (at the loss of some flexibility):
1. There are named colors, such as "royal blue" that one can use
instead of "#RRGGBB" format. If it were possible to user-define
more, that would be a solution.
This is possible on X11, but not in the manner you mean: Those named
colors are actually provided by the system.
Emacs bundles a copy of a historic de-facto standard set of named colors
for non-x11 use. The set of named colors adopted by modern web browsers
was also largely based on that set, with some small changes [1].
However on real X11 (at least x.org and friends), the set of named
colors is user-extensible e.g. if you place the following in ~/.xcms.txt
XCMS_COLORDB_START 0.1
Blobby RGB:7fe2/ffe1/331a
XCMS_COLORDB_END
and then
export XCMSDB=~/.xcms.txt
and run emacs in that environment, you'll have the color "blobby"
available in emacs (and any other x11 app which uses the relevant x11
color api).
None of that means emacs couldn't support internal user-defined named
colors, or any number of other things [2], just pointing out where they
currently come from.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names
[2] e.g. I suggested - not too seriously - note the "may be
overcomplicating things" - an ability to indirect through alists when
resolving colors last time the matter came up:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg00124.html