Re: EFS 1.15 bug: Colour problem

Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] (sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de)
22 May 1998 09:07:54 +0200


>>>>> "Lennart" =3D=3D Lennart Svensson <lesve@geocities.com> writes:

Lennart> Gruss bug team:

Lennart> I happened to have the following lisp statement in my file .emacs
Lennart> -----
Lennart> ;(set-specifier (face-property 'default 'background)
Lennart> ;               '((nil . "lightblue")) (minibuffer-window))
Lennart> -----
Lennart> When the password prompt come up it was impossible to see the
Lennart> question. All the colours was corrupt. When I took away the above
Lennart> lisp statement everything seems to be OK.

I'm afraid EFS just uses the native XEmacs mechanism for reading
passwords which in turn uses the native face inversion mechanism which =

we know is currently broken.  Unfortunately, it's hard to fix.

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Cheers =3D8-} Mike
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