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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Rob Riepel <riepel@networking.stanford.edu>,
	emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:07:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803121507.m2CF7Erx024108@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr6egt5gb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:54:36 -0400")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > >> > 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.
  > 
  > Well, it's kind of a jump, but IIRC it's not completely off-the-mark:
  > Richard complained that the font-lock-comment-face was unreadable on his
  > screen, and the reason was partly that he kept the brightness of his
  > screen at minimum to maximize battery autonomy.

Exactly, but still, the problem was exclusively with a dark background,
there was no complaint whatsoever about the light background case.
There's no reason to have this behavior for the 8 color light background
case.  So, can we please restore it?




  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-12 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11 23:15 incomplete comment colorization in terminals Rob Riepel
2008-03-12  4:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-12  6:44   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12  8:17     ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-12 13:54       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-12 15:07         ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-03-12 17:51       ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-13  6:38         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-13 22:24           ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-13 22:44             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14  0:21               ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-14  0:34                 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  4:46                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-03-15  8:34                     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  0:49   ` Rob Riepel
2008-03-15 14:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-12  4:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-12 13:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13  6:40     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-13 15:01       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-13 18:55         ` Glenn Morris
2008-03-13 21:52           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14  4:16           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-14 15:08             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-19  4:02         ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-03-15  0:50     ` Rob Riepel
2008-03-12 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier

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