GNU bug report logs - #47316
27.1; commands with color input should use a common color chooser

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From: scame <laszlomail <at> protonmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "scame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
 the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>,
 "47316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <47316 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#47316: 27.1;
 commands with color input should use a common color chooser
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 12:11:56 +0000

> read-color will show you the colors from which you can select if you type '?', the standard Emacs command that requests the list of possible candidate values.

Yes, I mentioned it in my mail:

> > set-foreground-color uses a color chooser: read-color.

But customize use a different implementation, not read-color (at least on 27)
and other commands do not use read-color at all, despite getting color input,
they just list the color names without coloring them.

Other commands which read a face, not a color, show just face names for
completion. Showing face colors and other attributes inline (like in case
of list-faces-display) could be a nice improvement.

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