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list-colors-display

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Message #17 received at 9402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 9402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9402: list-colors-display
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:40:30 +0200

Hello.

Juri Linkov skrev 2011-08-29 23:17:

>
> IOW, when the user types `M-x customize-face RET region RET'
> then s?he sees the color name "gtk_selection_fg_color".
> Then the user might change it to some other color, but after that
> it's difficult to restore the original default color name,
> because the user don't remember this color name literally
> and can't select it using completion or the "Choose" button
> that lists all color names.
>
>

That is on purpose.  Say a user customizes a face to use 
gtk_selection_fg_color and saves it.  He then starts an Emacs compiled 
without Gtk+.  What color shall Emacs use then?

	Jan D.

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