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"The Unknown User-ID" ?? Is this intentional or a bug in your
mail system?

The Unknown User-ID (27009) writes:
 > I was able to reproduce the situation with emacs 19.27.  I suspect
 > that this is a feature, not a bug.  I suppose someone could write a
 > script for the non-savvy user that would keep trying default colors
 > until emacs ran, but my suggestion would be to run emacs with
 > different background, foreground, mouse, or other colors.

IDL is a scientific visualization package. It allocates colors to do
shading. In general, it would be unlikely that it would even pick
colors that have names in the X11 database, so to make your suggestion
work, we would have to try thousands of combinations of hex values,
and probably end up with something that had little contrast between
foreground and background colors. The colors it allocates will depend
on which image it is currently displaying, so your suggestion is
fairly useless to us.

to bug-gnu-emacs:

emacs 19.22, 19.27 (the only ones we've tested) refuse to start if it
can't obtain the foreground & background colors that the user has
requested in thier X resource database.  We're using X11R5. Emacs
18.59 did not exhibit this behavior.