Re: Naming new GUI colors?

[despen]

Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:50:09 -0400 despen@verizon.net wrote: 
>>
>> d> Does this do what you want?
>>
>> d> (setq my-red "#FF0033")
>> d> (set-face-foreground 'default my-red)
>>
>> Yes.  Amazingly, I never thought of just using a variable there.  Thanks.
>
> if you complete on color names, like you do e.g. in customize-face, do
> you get my-red in the proposed completions?

Of course not.

Don't go changing the requirements, it took us long enough to get this
far.