Achim Gratz writes:
> Yes. I'll have to figure out just why it tries to set the background to
> the named color "white" on startup, then. That must have got saved as
> an option somewhere, maybe I can still find an old enough backup to
> compare the startup files to.
Indeed on the same day that
Ken Brown writes:
> OK, so it's not a Cygwin issue. And I just learned about M-x
> list-colors-display. If you try this in emacs-nox in Mintty with
> TERM=xterm-256color, you'll see that white is #e5e5e5 and brightwhite
> is #ff. So I guess there's no bug here, just a surprising
> definitio
On 6/17/2017 10:38 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier, but I just fired up
emacs-nox from my Linux box and did 'M-x set-background-color RET white
RET' and guess what, the background turns a relatively dark shade of
grey. I've tried to dig through the call cha
Ken Brown writes:
> Even with no .minttrc, 'emacs-nox -Q' followed by 'M-x
> set-background-color RET white RET' turns the background gray.
I can't rule out that there was a change to the configuration of Emacs
on that day that effectively added the set-background operation on that
day.
> I can a
On 6/17/2017 4:20 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown writes:
No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1). The Emacs update was
before that and it had worked right up to that update.
Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "Cygwin update". I
understand now. I'll try to do a bisection of th
Ken Brown writes:
>> No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1). The Emacs update was
>> before that and it had worked right up to that update.
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by "Cygwin update". I
> understand now. I'll try to do a bisection of the Cygwin sources. It
> may be a f
On 6/16/2017 2:27 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown writes:
Your original report, written on February 22, said that the problem
started after the latest Cygwin update. That means you would have
installed emacs-25.1, if Emacs was updated at all.
No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1).
Ken Brown writes:
> Your original report, written on February 22, said that the problem
> started after the latest Cygwin update. That means you would have
> installed emacs-25.1, if Emacs was updated at all.
No, it really was a Cygwin update (to 2.7.0-1). The Emacs update was
before that and it
On 6/15/2017 2:43 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Ken Brown writes:
3. I evaluated (set-background-color "white"). This caused the
background to turn gray. The mode line and menu bar didn't visibly
change.
That's the main problem and I can't figure out why it associates white with
anything that doesn
Ken Brown writes:
> 1. I edited .minttyrc to set
> BackgroundColour=#F8F8F8. (ForegroundColour is 0,0,0, which I guess is
> the default.)
OK.
> 2. I ran 'emacs-nox -Q'. The background color didn't visibly change;
> it's still off-white. The mode line and menu line appear to be
> reversed (black
On 2017-06-15 07:35, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 6/15/2017 6:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> Achim Gratz writes:
After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with
emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the
>
On 6/15/2017 6:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Achim Gratz writes:
After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with
emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the
background color is gray instead of the usual white (f
On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
Achim Gratz writes:
After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with
emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the
background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the
rightmost character in th
Achim Gratz writes:
> After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with
> emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the
> background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the
> rightmost character in the status line, interestingly enough)
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