Re: Defining custom colors

[Michael Hudson]

Colin Marquardt <c.marquardt@alcatel.de> writes:

> Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:
> 
> > Specifically, I want to set the background to a color that's not in
> > the output of list-colors-display.
> 
> With something like "#1122FF" you can specify the RGB values in hex.

So I can!  So long as I use M-: (set-backgound-color "..."); M-x
set-background-color doesn't let me.

Although it seems to be #BBGGRR, which isn't what I expected (an
endian-ness bug?!)

Cheers,
M.

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