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When I run list-colors-display I get the following:

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which I think is a very small subset of colors that my Emacs supports, isn't it?

For example, I know Emacs supports other colors (gray20, blue15, etc). Why am I not seeing them as a result of the list-colors-display command?

How can I see the full list?

In case it matters, my version is:

"GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin15.5.0, NS appkit-1404.47 Version 10.11.5 (Build 15F34)) of 2016-06-20"

If I evaluate:

(defined-colors)

I get:

("alternateSelectedControlColor" "alternateSelectedControlTextColor" "controlBackgroundColor" "controlColor" "controlDarkShadowColor" "controlHighlightColor" "controlLightHighlightColor" "controlShadowColor" "controlTextColor" "disabledControlTextColor" "gridColor" "headerColor" ...)
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    Maybe version 25 does something different. When I run ESC-x list-colors-display on my Mac (Emacs 24.4 app), I see the same colors and layout that you post in your posting. BUT... the part that you are showing is at the very bottom of the list of colors that I see. It's as if your window scrolled to the bottom of the color list when it ran the command.
    – Kevin
    Jun 26, 2016 at 18:30
  • Exactly what @Kevin says, and looking at the code of list-colors-display, it would appear that the original poster is getting nil for (defined-colors). I would suggest that the original poster evaluate (message "%s" (defined-colors)) and let us know what the results are. I would also suggest downloading a fresh version of a nightly build from Emacs for OSX and see if it works as expected out-of-the-box. emacsformacosx.com
    – lawlist
    Jun 26, 2016 at 19:09
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    Doing some back-tracing of the code, I see that during the build process, the function (ns-list-colors) is used to set up the variable x-colors and the original poster is suffering from a partial-list -- i.e., missing "LightGreen" "light green" "DarkRed" "dark red" . . . "GhostWhite" "ghost white" "snow" which precedes "alternateSelectedControlColor" "alternateSelectedControlTextColor" Again, I strongly suspect the build itself -- something is broken -- try a new version from the link above. It can be download and tested in about 3 minutes.
    – lawlist
    Jun 26, 2016 at 19:33
  • The colors you are seeing what you would see in the OS X Color Chooser, clicked the third icon from the left, and selected "Developer". I have Emacs 24.5.1 and have the same problem. This was not problem in previous releases -- I got the full Emacs color list. i was running Emacs installed from MacPorts. Since its version was the same as the one advertised at the above link I didn't see any point in downloading it. Eventually I stopped being stubborn, downloaded it, and the problem is gone. Not good to have different behavior in 2 implementations of an application with the same version.
    – Mitchell Model
    Aug 20, 2016 at 13:48
  • This appears to be exclusively a problem with the emacs-app port in MacPorts. If you compile Emacs yourself, you won't see this issue. The issue is exactly as @lawlist described. This problem is still an issue with emacs-app 26.1 from MacPorts.
    – Y.H Wong
    Jun 2, 2018 at 18:54

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As @lawlist and @kevin commented, this was a problem with the nightly snapshot that I used. I re-installed Emacs: 

brew install emacs --devel  --with-cocoa --with-gnutls  --with-librsvg --with-imagemagick

and the problem went away.

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  • Error: invalid option: --devel
    – alper
    May 2 at 11:17

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