changeset 51506:eb007228d1de

Document new System colors on MS-Windows
author Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
date Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:56:32 +0000
parents 96facfc71511
children e4e1e9a6becf
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or
 pass them to Windows to be handled with system-wide functions.
 
+---
+** Emacs takes note of colors defined in Control Panel on MS-Windows.
+The Control Panel defines some default colors for applications in
+much the same way as wildcard X Resources do on X.  Emacs now
+adds these colors to the colormap prefixed by System (eg SystemMenu
+for the default Menu background, SystemMenuText for the foreground),
+and uses some of them to initialize some of the default faces.
+`list-colors-display' will show the list of System color names if you
+wish to use them in other faces.
+
 +++
 ** Under X11, it is possible to swap Alt and Meta (and Super and Hyper).
 The new variables `x-alt-keysym', `x-hyper-keysym', `x-meta-keysym',