emacs 21: "revert buffer" dialog doesn't set font color

[Rob Browning]

Please maintain the -forwarded Cc: above in any replies.

You can see the full thread at http://bugs.debian.org/117326.

Thanks

Filip Van Raemdonck <mechanix@debian.org> writes:

> I've set emacs to use grey on black color (as in the console). When
> I use the "revert buffer" command from the file menu, I get a dialog
> that's entirely unreadable.  That is because the new emacs sets this
> dialog to have a grey background, but it doesn't set a foreground
> color (font color), which results in a grey on grey dialog. The only
> thing that are visible are the borders of the buttons.
>
> There is a screenshot on
> http://people.debian.org/~mechanix/emacsbug.png, where you can see
> what I mean. That shot was taken with the -1 revision, but it's
> similar with -2, only the buttons have a 3d-ish look with that
> because of the different xaw library used.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Filip
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: sid
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux lucretia 2.4.8 #5 Mon Aug 13 20:13:21 CEST 2001 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE@euro
>
> Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
> ii  dpkg                      1.9.16         Package maintenance system for 
> Deb
> ii  emacsen-common            1.4.13         Common facilities for all 
> emacsen.
> ii  libc6                     2.2.4-3        GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libjpeg62                 6b-1.3         The Independent JPEG Group's 
> JPEG 
> ii  liblockfile1              1.03           NFS-safe locking library, 
> includes
> ii  libncurses5               5.2.20010318-3 Shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> ii  libpng2                   1.0.12-2       PNG library - runtime
> ii  libtiff3g                 3.5.5-5        Tag Image File Format library
> ii  libungif4g                4.1-9          shared library for GIF images 
> (run
> ii  xaw3dg                    1.5-7          Xaw3d widget set
> ii  xlibs                     4.1.0-6        X Window System client libraries
> ii  zlib1g                    1:1.1.3-15     compression library - runtime
>
> -- 
> "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned
>  in school."
>       -- Albert Einstein
>
>

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