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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Van L <van@scratch.space>
Cc: 33093@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33093: 26.1, 7.2 emacs-mac; M-x list-colors-display RET; L1 is black on black
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:00:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8hahzhy.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E28D1F1F-CA82-4B04-AF9A-7E7DAB50C6EF@scratch.space> (Van L.'s message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:32:30 +1100")

>> Sorry, this was implemented intentionally: the first column shows
>> the combination of different background colors with the user's
>> foreground color.  You can see its usefulness after changing the default
>> foreground color for example with 'M-x set-foreground-color RET blue RET'.
>
> I believe that hides the problem lower down to blue foreground on blue background.
>
> Doing 'M-x set-foreground-color RET blue RET’ lets L1 be somewhat legible; but L22, L23 are not at all.

When a sample text is not legible this warns the user against using such
combination of foreground and background colors in user's configuration,
i.e. it's easier for users to visually skip such hardly legible text
in the list when choosing a suitable color.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-25 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-19 10:55 bug#33093: 26.1, 7.2 emacs-mac; M-x list-colors-display RET; L1 is black on black Van L
2018-10-19 12:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-21  5:12   ` Van L
2018-10-21 12:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-23 20:30     ` Juri Linkov
2018-10-25 13:32       ` Van L
2018-10-25 19:00         ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2018-10-25 22:02           ` Van L
2018-10-26  6:34             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-28  1:46               ` Van L

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