From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:46:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqi9cakl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnzo9cja.fsf@gnu.org> <59B7E7FC-48D0-4737-B1BB-FFAC5BA9E07A@swipnet.se> <874n5f3162.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvozf86g.fsf@gnu.org> <87r48javwe.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnzmfjxe.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnzlyvwb.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389289611 28525 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 17:46:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:46:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 18:46:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Jh1-00077w-Jn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:46:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Jh1-00047M-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Jgu-00044s-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Jgp-0003yo-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:59140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Jgk-0003xI-CV; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:46:38 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZ500600AKANI00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:46:37 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZ50063VAPOLS40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:46:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167953 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:07:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Drew Adams > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > been a source of annoyance over the years. Introducing another > > > such situation should, in my view, be avoided as far as possible. > > > > That's a good point. Basically, what you're saying is that instead > > of :distant-foreground we could have a :foreground that can be of > > the form (NORMAL-FOREGROUND . ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND), where > > ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND is used when NORMAL-FOREGROUND would lead to a > > lack of contrast. > > Please don't. That too would break code that expects :foreground to > be as it is now. Why do you assume that the previous form will not be accepted? Of course, it will be.