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23.1.93; list-colors-display doesn't show all colors

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Message #11 received at 5683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Markus Prepens <markus.prepens <at> googlemail.com>
Cc: 5683 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5683: 23.1.93; list-colors-display doesn't show all colors
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:01:37 +0200

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> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:57:19 +0100
> From: Markus Prepens <markus.prepens <at> googlemail.com>
> 
> Function defined-colors seems to cause the trouble.  I stepped down the 
> code to xw-defined-colors in file ns-win.el. It uses the list x-colors. 
> It contains only 42 colors.
> 
> x-colors is initialized with the return value of ns-list-colors:
> 
> (defvar x-colors (ns-list-colors)
> 
> What I am wondering about is that ns-list-colors returns a correct list 
> of 794 colors.
> 
> What is wrong with the assignment of (ns-list-colors) to x-colors?

Nothing's wrong.  I suspect that some code modifies x-colors after it
is assigned.  Can you see if evaluating the following form

  (defvar my-x-colors (ns-list-colors))

puts the full 794-color list in my-x-colors?  (To evaluate the
expression, put the cursor immediately after the right parenthesis and
type "C-x C-e".)

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