Am 02.07.2008 um 00:55 schrieb Seiji Zenitani:
> By the way, in my impression,
> it will be easy to port the transparency code to the cocoa emacs,
> if the application works.
I'm not using the new code from the Bazaar repository (when I first
tried, the transfer stopped in the middle, then I found that it's
much more than the necessary code, so I'm leaving it). I think the
Cocoa port does *not* need the transparency patch(es) – transparency
is already in Cocoa! You can make Terminal transparent, for
example ... It would be an improvement if all Emacsen would use (or
at least understand) the transparency settings for when in foreground
or put into the background! Emacs.app accepts "colour input" like these:
Emacs also accepts color specifications of the form `ARGBaarrggbb'
where AA, RR, GG, and BB are two hexadecimal digits describing
the alpha, red, green, and blue content of the color respectively.
`HSBhhssbbaa', `CMYKccmmyykkaa' and `GRAYggaa' are the equivalents
in `HSB', `CMYK' and gray scales.
This has side effects. Using in *-frame-alist
(ns-set-background-alpha . .875)
(background-color . "mint cream")
switches transparency off because the named colour is opaque (during
start-up transparency is seen). So to have transparency you'll need
to add the alpha setting to the hex value of "mint cream." This
scheme is missing frame-based foreground and background transparency
that once existed. So some work on transparency is indeed needed.
There is also the option to use the system's highlight colour
(instead of its own).
What's also missing is the ability to print non-US-ASCII buffer
contents via htmlize (and Coral) – which, anyway, should become
standard to all Emacsen.
BTW, since Emacs.app is based on GNU Emacs 23.x code it tends to
crash much more than before. It also has problems with the floating
tip windows.
--
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Pete
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