Subject: bug#3677 closed by Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> (Re: 23.0.95; facemenu-read-color should not require match)

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Subject: Re: 23.0.95; facemenu-read-color should not require match
From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
To: Jay Berkenbilt <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:27:35 -0400

>   M-x set-cursor-color RET #9ef RET
>
>   -> [no match]
>
> The same thing happens with set-foreground-color and
> set-background-color, all of which call facemenu-read-color, but not
> with set-face-foreground and set-face-background, which do not.  All
> above mentioned functions do completing reads on color names, which is
> appropriate, but they should also accept #xxx, #xxxxxx, rgb:xx/xx/xx,
> etc.  If you do M-: (set-cursor-color "#9ef"), it works, so this is
> clearly a case of the wrong kind of completing read being done.

Thanks for the bug report.  I've hacked up the completion function so
that it allows any defined colors, including RGB triplets.

Subject: 23.0.95; facemenu-read-color should not require match
From: Jay Berkenbilt <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:24:38 -0400

[I apologize if this is a duplicate.  M-x report-emacs-bug doesn't
appear to have called my sendmail-send-it function, so my original
report is likely to be rejected as spam from many recipients.]

  M-x set-cursor-color RET #9ef RET

  -> [no match]

The same thing happens with set-foreground-color and
set-background-color, all of which call facemenu-read-color, but not
with set-face-foreground and set-face-background, which do not.  All
above mentioned functions do completing reads on color names, which is
appropriate, but they should also accept #xxx, #xxxxxx, rgb:xx/xx/xx,
etc.  If you do M-: (set-cursor-color "#9ef"), it works, so this is
clearly a case of the wrong kind of completing read being done.

In facemenu-read-color, in the let statement, require-match is
initialized this way:

	 (require-match (not (eq window-system 'ns)))

I believe it should always have the value nil so that people are free
to enter colors in alternative ways.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.95.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.4)
 of 2009-06-23 on motoko.argon.local
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/opt/tps/packages/linux.ix86.rhel5/emacs-23.0.95-1''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Conf[Xdefaults]

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  which-function-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-b C-d 9 C-d e C-x C-s C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-b C-b C-d 8 d C-d C-x C-s C-d e C-x C-s C-x o 
C-v C-x C-x o C-x o C-b C-b C-b C-d d C-n C-n C-n C-n 
<backspace> e C-x C-s <C-backspace> <C-backspace> <C-backspace> 
<C-backspace> C-x C-s C-x 0 M-< C-v C-v C-v C-v C-v 
C-v C-v C-v C-v M-v M-v C-SPC C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-g M-v M-v M-v 
M-v M-v C-x b <return> C-f C-f C-b C-d b C-n C-n C-n 
C-n <backspace> c C-x C-s <C-backspace> <C-backspace> 
<C-backspace> <C-backspace> C-x C-s C-x b <return> 
C-s s k y C-x b <return> C-x v u y e s <return> C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-k C-z C-o M-b 0 <backspace> 9 e f C-k 
C-p C-p C-p C-p <M-backspace> 8 d e C-x C-s <C-M-S-delete> 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n M-b C-k b l a c k C-x C-s <C-M-S-delete> 
M-x C-g C-x b C-g C-x C-f ~ / X r <tab> c o <tab> <return> 
C-s c u r s o r C-z C-o C-s C-s C-s C-e C-l M-b C-k 
9 e f C-x b <return> C-x b <return> C-x C-s C-x b <return> 
C-x b <return> M-x s e t SPC c u <tab> <return> # 9 
9 e e f f <return> <M-backspace> <backspace> M-p C-k 
' <backspace> # 9 e f <return> C-g M-: ( s e t - c 
u r s o r - c o l o r SPC " # d <backspace> 9 0 e f 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> e f " ) <return> 
C-a C-e M-x r e p o r t SPC b <backspace> e m SPC b 
SPC <return>

Recent messages:
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