GNU bug report logs - #5787
color-name-rgb-alist color names should be the same as the colors in x-colors

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rares Vernica <rares <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Rares Vernica <rares <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 5787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5787: color-name-rgb-alist color names should be the same as the colors in x-colors
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:43:20 +0200

Rares Vernica <rares <at> ics.uci.edu> writes:

> There are differences in spelling between color-name-rgb-alist and x-colors:
>
> Things like:
>
> ghostwhite -> ghost white
>
> mistyrose1 -> MistyRose1
>
> this results in wasting pure storage for allocating both versions.

I think these are looked up, so removing the spelling variations would
make stuff fail.  So this isn't a bug, I think.

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