From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:07:14 -0700 Message-ID: <200803121507.m2CF7Erx024108@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> References: <20080311231514.B718249C0BB@daedalus.stanford.edu> <200803120644.m2C6i8fa000584@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <18391.37244.140676.65895@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205334766 20037 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 15:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Riepel , emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, Nick Roberts , Eli Zaretskii To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 16:13:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-forward.uio.no ([129.240.10.42]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZSdJ-0002af-J9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:12:45 +0100 Original-Received: from mail-mx8.uio.no ([129.240.10.38]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZScl-0003Wh-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:12:11 +0100 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by mail-mx8.uio.no with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZScY-0005qX-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:12:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZScI-0007Zo-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZScE-0007ZO-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSc7-0007Xc-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZSc6-0007XZ-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZSc5-0003Em-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mx10.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JZSc1-00088s-QV for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZSbt-0003Cw-Qb for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:20 -0400 Original-Received: from sallyv1.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZSbl-0002YK-Rm; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:11:11 -0400 X-ICS-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205939235.69297@YC+HV9OxWlZotcJmMqh74Q Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by sallyv1.ics.uci.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id m2CF7Erx024108; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:07:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:54:36 -0400") Original-Lines: 21 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1) X-UiO-Scanned: 8DDA5652B8FFE7DD8F72C92EC54A8B72F9D175B3 X-UiO-SR-test: A128E3990E3AC0BB50D02846587E7F47E2A2D320 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 199.232.76.165 spam_score: -9 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 7 total 42563 max/h 424 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92289 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:21544 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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?