The colors chosen for the compilation status are very hard on the eyes with the default mode-line colors.  Please change the compilation status to use darker colors.

  -- MJF

In GNU Emacs 23.0.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)

 of 2009-02-01 on SOFT-MJASON

Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600

configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:

  value of $LC_ALL: nil

  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil

  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil

  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil

  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil

  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil

  value of $LC_TIME: nil

  value of $LANG: ENU

  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil

  locale-coding-system: cp1252

  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Grep

Minor modes in effect:

  tooltip-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  global-auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:

<help-echo> <apps> <apps> M-x r g r e p <return> t

e s t <return> <return> ~ / <tab> <return> <down-mouse-1>

<mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>

<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>

<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug

-report>

Recent messages:

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