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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 20 Sep 1997 21:34:34 +0200
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karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>  I miss having a pixmap `stipple' ((misnomer? 'stipple) 'pixmap) ==>
>  #<YTMAWBN>[1].
[...]
> [1] It's really a backing pixmap, not a stipple, right?  Isn't
> `stipple' the term used for what's done to grey-out a menu entry?

It's called `face-background-pixmap' under XEmacs.  `Stipple' is a
Stallmanism.

>  I'd like it if the background color got honored...  Uhhm, since the
>  pixmap format has symbolic color names, then cannot the 'background
>  color of the backing pixmap be melted and clashed with the
>  <flash>text colors</flash>?

It might -- I think it's worth trying.

>  I wish some knows-how-to would please (with no sugar and an extra
>  soft toothbrush, big smile) go and just drop the good parts of the
>  perl regexp engine (LE-purr) into XEmacs.

Why would we need that?  XEmacs uses regexps far too much, already.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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