On Jun 6, 12:37am, <patrick_at_mail.boxsoft.com> wrote:
> Subject: Re: FVWM: Re: fvwm and colors, please help
>
> Sometime in the late 1900s nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca (Neil Zanella) typed:
>
> > The colors are indeed carelessly listed.
> > What bothers me the most is that some colors have multiple entries whereas
> > others don't. Here is part of my showrgb output:
> >
> > Note that "snow" appears once, "ghostwhite" appears twice as "ghost white"
> > and "GhostWhite", and "slategray" apperas four times as "slate gray",
"SlateGrey", and then once more "slate grey", and "SlateGrey".
> >
> > 255 250 250 snow
> > 248 248 255 ghost white
> > 248 248 255 GhostWhite
>
> [dd]
>
> > Rather, IMHO there should be only one entry for each color like
>
> Why?!?
>
> I like to have the choice to type "slategray" on Tuesdays and
> "SlateGray" on every Saturday, not to mention my Wednesday
> habbit to type "slate grey" and my ritual of typing
> "SlateGrey" every 2nd Monday of the month.
>
> So unless you want to make the parser for the RGB db accept
> *and* understand all the different ways of representing a
> colour using english text... don't bother!
>
>
> > 255 250 250 snow
> > 248 248 255 ghost white
> > 245 245 245 white smoke
> > 220 220 220 gainsboro
> > 255 250 240 floral white
> > ... ...
> >
> > Also, the entries should be displayed in alphabetical order (why not)?
>
>
> Why again? Do you visit this file so often that you need
> to have it in alpha order?
>
> If you are concerened about finding certain text in there
> and do not want to be scrolling up and down so much, then
> I must wonder why you are not using '/usr/bin/grep' to list
> the entries for you?
>
don't forget to pipe though sort +3 , for that matter..
Sorry, could't resist.
> Just my 2 cents on the matter, :>
>
>
> Patrick K.
>
> P.S. Also see `man sort' for more options to sort your `showrgb'
> output.
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Received on Mon Jun 08 1998 - 07:31:46 BST