Re: set-background-color

[Chong Yidong]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> > From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup)
> > Date: 17 Feb 2002 17:56:09 +0100
> > > 
> > > They are not valid colors for the display being used.
> > 
> > I have a true-color X display capable of displaying the colors such as
> > "#c0c0c0"
> 
> I was not talking about X; this is a misunderstanding.  This thread
> was about "emacs -nw", and it's in that context that I replied to all
> the questions.

Even in X, facemenu-read-color rejects "#......", which are valid
color strings.