From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:02:09 -0400 Message-ID: <874qcz8jxd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <87wtq3ydmf.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <17029.21411.495779.643570@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17030.32533.416687.524645@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <85k6m04y6f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <857ji0nly2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116508752 6679 80.91.229.2 (19 May 2005 13:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 13:19:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Edward O'Connor , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 19 15:19:11 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYktc-0001BW-SB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 15:17:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkwG-0001hb-N1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkqx-00006X-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:14:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkqv-00005a-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYkqv-0008E0-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYknY-0006CN-B8; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.49.81.51]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050519130210.SRLM21470.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:02:10 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9266ED7322; Thu, 19 May 2005 09:02:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 18 May 2005 18:44:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:37351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37351 > I don't think I am the only user who uses a console and finds > comments in red hard to read. You're probably right. But: - how many exactly? - how serious is it? can't they just customize their comment color? - why should these users get special treatment? I mean, I find the default colors in font-lock to be illegible (i.e. I can read every letter, but the colors significantly slowdown my reading), so I had to change most/all of them. > Nor the only one who would like comment delimiters in red. > And this is a small change. The downsides of course are: - it costs CPU time even though in the end the result is only visible for those specific users who happen to be using 8-color ttys (or those few extra rare ones who read the NEWS and figured they want an angrier fruit salad and thus changed their font-lock-comment-delimiter-face to be visible in other cases as well). - it annoys those users who do run 8-color ttys but whose red is readable just fine. - maybe some users want it, but they can't want it that badly since they haven't asked for it. - The most important problem: it's majorly buggy. Stefan