From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some xterm-256color face colors too bright? Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:21:10 -0500 Message-ID: <87acqoxcca.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <01c507ca$Blat.v2.4$c3c54200@zahav.net.il> <01c50897$Blat.v2.4$b4e02700@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107291671 18801 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2005 21:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:01:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stktrc , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 22:01:11 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw58p-00005S-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:00:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5Lo-0006iT-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw5J1-0005TW-8R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:11:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw59O-0002Yo-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cw59G-0002Ou-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 16:01:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cw4WR-0004bk-A1; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:21:15 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.119.41]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20050201202114.XWFO2026.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60E5AD7345; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:21:10 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c50897$Blat.v2.4$b4e02700@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:52:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32722 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32722 >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: stktrc >> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:48:49 +0200 >> >> Comparing terminal RosyBrown and windowed RosyBrown as background >> colors gives that terminal RosyBrown is slightly brighter, but the >> difference is not huge. >> [...] >> I want to stress that the brightness of the colors in the terminal are >> not just an aesthetical annoyance or anything like that: it borders on >> making the text unreadable. In windowed Emacs, everything is fine. > ??? These two paragraphs seem to contradict one another: the first one [...] > unreadable'' vs ``everything is fine''). I wonder how can this > happen. Can you shed some light on this? He also said: Comparing them as foreground colors gives a larger difference (text in the window RosyBrown being readable, while in terminal RosyBrown considerably-less-readable). -- Stefan