2 The COLOR Package

apropos-color-names

Function

Summary

Returns colors and color aliases containing a given string.

Package

color

Signature

apropos-color-names substring => list

Arguments

substring: A string.

Values

list: A list of symbols.

Description

Returns a list of symbols whose symbol-names contain substring and which are present in the color-database defining color aliases. By convention these are in the keyword package.

Example

COLOR-4> (color:apropos-color-names "RED") (:ORANGERED3 :ORANGERED1 :INDIANRED3 :INDIANRED1 :PALEVIOLETRED :RED :INDIANRED :INDIANRED2 :INDIANRED4 :ORANGERED :MEDIUMVIOLETRED :VIOLETRED :ORANGERED2 :ORANGERED4 :RED1 :RED2 :RED3 :RED4 :PALEVIOLETRED1 :PALEVIOLETRED2 :PALEVIOLETRED3 :PALEVIOLETRED4 :VIOLETRED3 :VIOLETRED1 :VIOLETRED2 :VIOLETRED4)

See also

apropos-color-alias-names apropos-color-spec-names get-all-color-names