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bug#47313: 27.1; highlight functions should accept colors too
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#47313: 27.1; highlight functions should accept colors too |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:01:45 +0200 |
> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:39:11 +0000
> From: scame <laszlomail@protonmail.com>
> Cc: "47313@debbugs.gnu.org" <47313@debbugs.gnu.org>
>
> > We could try that, but I fear that the result of showing many faces in
> > the same buffer one besides the other will look ugly, while displaying
> > them one face per line would make a very long buffer, scrolling
> > through which could be impractical.
>
> It can't be uglier than the completions of read-color which is pretty bad.
I think it can. But again, you are welcome to try that, perhaps I'm
wrong.
> It's a cacophony of colors and some of them are hard to read:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/NtIDihs.png
I don't see any cacophony, and have no difficulty reading the names.
Besides, when you see the color itself, why does it matter how it is
named?
>
> IMO the list-colors-display UI is much better even if it's longer (and if
> it's a completion list then it's easy to narrow it down):
>
> https://www.valenciatech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/gnu-emacs-list-colors-display.png
FWIW, I'd be annoyed by the length of this long before I found the
color I was after. But that's me.