From: Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Darkening font-lock colors
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 11:21:48 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <485b0c380908030721xa34e5c7tfeeca5b1f7734ec8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908031234.n73CYKlg013580@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
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Is there anything preventing color-theme.el from being included in Emacs?
That way themes could be provided to better account for particular user
tastes.
--Stephen
programmer, n:
A red eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate
monsters.
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
> > > > > Given that you are changing faces, how about changing the dark
> > > > > background, 8 color font-lock-comment-face to "yellow", then we
> can
> > > > > obsolete `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
> > > >
> > > > Why yellow?
> > >
> > > It has good contrast with the black background and it is only used by
> > > font-lock-variable-face on an 8 color dark background terminal.
> >
> > Then yellow would be good for font-lock-comment-face, but I think
> > font-lock-comment-delimiter should stay in red.
>
> Why? font-lock-comment-delimiter is a hack.
> And an unnecessary complication.
> It was only introduced because the red foreground used on an 8 color
> dark background terminal was not readable.
> font-lock-comment-delimiter it is currently only used for 8 color dark
> background terminals.
>
> The problem is that this is confusing for users: we got many bug reports
> about syntax coloring not working because the users saw the body of the
> comments not being syntax highlighted. Distributions (Debian, Ubuntu
> and probably others too) patched this out by using red for
> font-lock-comment-face, effectively defeating the purpose of why
> font-lock-comment-delimiter was introduced.
>
> So I am proposing to simplify this whole thing by removing the reason
> for font-lock-comment-delimiter to exist: use a readable yellow
> foreground on 8 color dark background terminals.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-30 21:12 Darkening font-lock colors Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 21:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 21:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-30 22:00 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 21:57 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-30 22:21 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-07-30 23:40 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-31 0:18 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 0:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 3:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 15:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-02 20:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-02 22:36 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-02 22:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 0:16 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 1:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 0:14 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-10 2:37 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-10 3:28 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-10 23:56 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 2:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-03 2:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 4:34 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-03 5:13 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-03 5:22 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 9:54 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 11:58 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-08-03 13:49 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 23:46 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 13:59 ` joakim
2009-08-03 20:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-08-08 20:56 ` Color themes (was: Darkening font-lock colors) Juri Linkov
2009-08-08 21:16 ` Color themes joakim
2009-08-09 3:04 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-09 4:28 ` Leo
2009-08-09 16:18 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-09 17:28 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 18:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:51 ` joakim
2009-08-10 9:12 ` Leo
2009-08-10 23:48 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-11 1:32 ` Leo
2009-08-11 3:58 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-11 4:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-11 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 5:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-11 8:59 ` Leo
2009-08-11 18:21 ` ferkiwi
2009-08-03 20:01 ` Darkening font-lock colors Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 22:40 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-03 22:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 23:54 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 0:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-04 21:27 ` Johan Bockgård
2009-08-04 23:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-03 23:27 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 23:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-31 0:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 2:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 0:17 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 3:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-03 12:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 14:21 ` Stephen Eilert [this message]
2009-08-03 21:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-03 23:02 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-04 8:27 ` Romain Francoise
2009-08-04 8:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 22:44 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-03 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2009-07-31 0:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 22:22 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-31 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-31 3:54 ` tomas
2009-08-04 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-03 9:35 Angelo Graziosi
2009-08-03 20:42 Francesc Rocher
2009-08-04 0:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-04 0:21 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 14:15 grischka
2009-08-10 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-11 16:07 ` grischka
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