GNU bug report logs - #15900
24.3.50; foreground-color-at-point returns wrong results

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Message #65 received at 15900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: Re: bug#15900: 24.3.50;
 foreground-color-at-point returns wrong results
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:50:37 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > There's no difficulty.
>
> Then I don't understand why you still want to analyze colors instead
> of analyzing faces.  This is what my suggestion boiled down to:
> instead of trying to figure out the foreground color of the text at
> point, just compare its face(s) with a list of known faces whose
> appearance you don't want to override.

Ok, I think now I understand your point.  And I see that my approach has
its difficulties: faces can be customized (a foreground attribute can be
removed or added), faces can even be frame dependent, etc.  What I do is
just a heuristic.  Mmh, let me think about it.  Thanks for your opinion.


Regards,

Michael.

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