From unknown Fri Sep 05 18:47:10 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#5071 <5071@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#5071 <5071@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: 23.1.50; emacs -eval '(y-or-n-p "zz")' assumes background color wrong Reply-To: bug#5071 <5071@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:47:10 +0000 retitle 5071 23.1.50; emacs -eval '(y-or-n-p "zz")' assumes background colo= r wrong reassign 5071 emacs submitter 5071 jidanni@jidanni.org severity 5071 minor tag 5071 moreinfo wontfix thanks From jidanni@jidanni.org Sun Nov 29 01:53:54 2009 Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 29 Nov 2009 09:53:54 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2008-06-10) on rzlab.ucr.edu X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=4.0 tests=AWL,SARE_RECV_SPAM_DOMN0b autolearn=no version=3.2.5-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [140.186.70.10]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id nAT9rqp5015799 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:53:54 -0800 Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]:35443 helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NEgTY-0004Jk-1S for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEgTW-0004qw-K8 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:51 -0500 Received: from caiajhbdcagg.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.66]:45954 helo=homiemail-a10.g.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEgTW-0004qo-B5 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:50 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (218-163-7-149.dynamic.hinet.net [218.163.7.149]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a10.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD1CE28005C for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:53:47 -0800 (PST) From: jidanni@jidanni.org To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org Subject: 23.1.50; emacs -eval '(y-or-n-p "zz")' assumes background color wrong Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:45:33 +0800 Message-ID: <87ljhp7jgi.fsf@jidanni.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Gentlemen, consider when I do $ emacs M-x gnus vs. $ emacs -f gnus In both cases I get the following error message, nntp (news.gmane.org) open error: ''. Continue? (y or n) which is only natural, as I haven't plugged in to any network. The problem is the color of the message. In the latter case, part of emacs thinks the background colors in http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration are already in place, and shows me the message in an unreadable choice of foreground colors! Indeed, do $ emacs -eval '(y-or-n-p "zz")' using my colors, and you can reproduce the problem. 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