Re: Naming new GUI colors?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:28:42 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: 

d> Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:50:09 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: 
>>> 
d> Does this do what you want?
>>> 
d> (setq my-red "#FF0033")
d> (set-face-foreground 'default my-red)
>>> 
>>> Yes.  Amazingly, I never thought of just using a variable there.  Thanks.
>> 
>> if you complete on color names, like you do e.g. in customize-face, do
>> you get my-red in the proposed completions?

d> Of course not.

d> Don't go changing the requirements, it took us long enough to get this
d> far.

It's a reasonable question.  Probably the easiest way is to hook into
anything.el rather than modify the Emacs color completions.

Ted