Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/faces.el

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:38:14 +0200
> Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > No, the minibuffer-prompt face is one of the few cases where the
> > literal `pc' is deliberate.  It so happens that many users of the
> > MS-DOS port use blue as their default foreground color.
> 
> Aha.  But then a condition like ((class color) (background "blue"))
> would be mode appropriate.

Maybe it would, but: (a) `(background SOMETHING)' looks at the
`background-mode' frame parameter, not at the background color; and
(b) I was talking about foreground color, not background.  If your
default face foreground is blue, having the minibuffer-prompt in blue
will defeat the reason for the minibuffer-prompt face.

> But there is no color for 8-color terminals which does not stand out.

I think blue and green do not stand out on 8-color terminals as much
as the red color.

Also note that the way you defined the face, 16-color terminals will
also use red, although there are some more colors there that do not
stand out.  In fact, any terminal with fewer than 88 colors will use
red.