GNU bug report logs - #53890
29.0.50; feature request: cursor color as a foreground color

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Message #27 received at 53890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 53890 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53890: 29.0.50; feature request: cursor color as a
 foreground color
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 15:07:49 +0800

(Sorry for the late reply, this got caught up in a spam filter.)

Jose A Ortega Ruiz <jao <at> gnu.org> writes:

> related to this, and just thinking out loud: alpha-background is still
> applied to the :background attributes of all (?) other faces, which of
> course makes sense in general.  but i can imagine cases where having the
> option to avoid alpha-background in some other selected faces
> (e.g. hilite) would be useful (basically, for the same reason it's
> useful for the cursor face).  in other words, i think having a
> customizable list of faces whose background is preserved would be a
> useful feature.

I do eventually want to extend the existing color machinery to handle an
alpha channel, but that will have to wait.

Feel free to open a wishlist issue about this, thanks.

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