From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:17:00 +1300 Message-ID: <18391.37244.140676.65895@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20080311231514.B718249C0BB@daedalus.stanford.edu> <200803120644.m2C6i8fa000584@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205309858 25652 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 08:17:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Riepel , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 09:18:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZMA0-0005sa-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:18:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZM9R-0001yo-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZM9M-0001x6-5C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZM9K-0001w8-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZM9K-0001w3-AK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZM9K-0002jr-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZM9J-00073P-SA for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZM9G-0002iv-PA for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZM9C-0002ft-JJ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:17:14 -0400 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (95.30.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.30.95]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B3C3DA320; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:17:06 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E9EA58FC6D; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:17:00 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <200803120644.m2C6i8fa000584@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.91.2 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92251 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21538 Archived-At: > > This is not a bug, but a deliberate feature. There's a new face named > > font-lock-comment-delimiter-face. > > This feature was introduced because on the Linux console the comment > face was hard to read (red on black). That's not my recollection. Indeed red is very easy to see on black when there is sufficient brightness. ISTR that RMS added it to minimise power consumption on laptops. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob