From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lute Kamstra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: font-lock-comment-delimiter-face Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 02:01:53 +0200 Message-ID: <877jhw9j7y.fsf@xs4all.nl> 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 1116461611 4931 80.91.229.2 (19 May 2005 00:13:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 00:13:31 +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 02:13:29 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYYeH-000491-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 02:12:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYYgn-0007EQ-KU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYYe8-0005gq-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:12:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYYe5-0005fI-U5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:12:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYYe5-0005FY-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.24.25] (helo=smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYYcR-0000MC-4x; Wed, 18 May 2005 20:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from pijl (a80-127-67-124.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.127.67.124]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4J01tPX040328; Thu, 19 May 2005 02:01:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Lute.Kamstra@xs4all.nl) Original-Received: from lute by pijl with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DYYU6-0006Eq-00; Thu, 19 May 2005 02:01:54 +0200 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) Original-Lines: 21 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:37318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37318 Richard Stallman writes: > I don't mean to sound hostile, but I don't see what is wrong with a > simple user customization. I don't understand why you would make large > changes to Emacs when you could simply change the offending face on your > machine. > > I don't think I am the only user who uses a console and finds > comments in red hard to read. Nor the only one who would like comment > delimiters in red. And this is a small change. I agree that red is hard to read on an 8-color console. White reads much better. While I don't like it that comment delimiters look different than the comment text, I think that the benefit of having readable comment text outweighs that disadvantage. Just customizing font-lock-comment-face to white (and not using font-lock-comment-delimiter-face) on an 8-color console doesn't cut it as that makes the comments hard to spot. Lute.