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bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "
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Visuwesh |
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bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg" |
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Wed, 25 May 2022 13:23:09 +0530 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
[புதன் மே 25, 2022] Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife
of text editors" wrote:
> Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In a tty frame and when using a theme that does not explicitly set the
>> default face's :foreground/:background [1], (face-attribute 'default
>> :foreground)
>> returns "unspecified-fg". This value is surprising when the docstring
>> of `face-attribute' says,
>>
>> To ensure that the return value is always specified and absolute, use a
>> value of ‘default’ for INHERIT; this will resolve any unspecified or
>> relative values by merging with the ‘default’ face (which is always
>> completely specified). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> I opened the Elisp manual and tried to isearch for "unspecified-fg", but
>> it got me no matches. It would be nice if this return value was
>> documented somewhere.
>
> Isn't that a special color which means to use the terminal's default
> foreground (and/or background, in the case of unspecified-bg) colors?
>
> If so, it should be documented as that instead.
Indeed, "unspecified-fg/bg" means to use the terminal's default fg/bg.
But AFAICT, it is not specified in the manual anywhere.
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Visuwesh, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Po Lu, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg",
Visuwesh <=
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Visuwesh, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Visuwesh, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/25
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Adam Porter, 2022/05/27
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Eli Zaretskii, 2022/05/27
- bug#55623: 29.0.50; Mention that (face-foreground 'default) can return "unspecified-fg", Adam Porter, 2022/05/27