From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More visible mini-buffer prompt face Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:48:46 +0100 Message-ID: <45E30F6E.60209@gmail.com> References: <45DF1547.8010404@gmail.com> <45DF9677.9050104@gmail.com> <7dbe73ed0702260255y3a9cc080xe1e3688a916ef18a@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172508569 29807 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2007 16:49:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mathias Dahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 26 17:49:19 2007 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 1HLj26-0004BZ-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:49:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLj26-0004QP-3V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:49:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLj1w-0004QK-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:48:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLj1u-0004Q8-2i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLj1t-0004Q5-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:48:49 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HLj1q-0008Se-Hj; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:48:46 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62457 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HLj1o-0006tG-5s; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:48:45 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0702260255y3a9cc080xe1e3688a916ef18a@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000717-1, 2007-02-26), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HLj1o-0006tG-5s. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HLj1o-0006tG-5s 25304abf0d33966f24b96eff11d58380 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:66860 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: >> I agree that is hard to distinguish from ordinary black-on-white text. >> The blue needs to be more different from black. >> >> What would you think of using `medium blue'? > > If the point is to make it easier to distinguish the prompt itself from the > text the user enters, this is better, IMO. But if the point was to > make the prompt > more visible when the user is looking somewhere else in the frame, I'd say > that it doesn't make much difference in getting his attention. Yes, that is right. I was thinking of the second scenario here (ie the user is looking somewhere else). I sent a suggestion as a patch to the list in this message: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg01071.html This also includes a bug fix for the customize part of the initialization of minibuffer-prompt-properties.