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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/faces.el
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:52:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k6r3ynqg.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c4ec98$Blat.v2.2.2$7de106e0@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:47:31 +0200")

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > No, the minibuffer-prompt face is one of the few cases where the
>> > literal `pc' is deliberate.  It so happens that many users of the
>> > MS-DOS port use blue as their default foreground color.
>> 
>> Aha.  But then a condition like ((class color) (background "blue"))
>> would be mode appropriate.
>
> Maybe it would, but: (a) `(background SOMETHING)' looks at the
> `background-mode' frame parameter, not at the background color;

That was the idea for a new feature that if the argument of
`(background SOMETHING)' is a string it would look at the
background color.

> (b) I was talking about foreground color, not background.

Ah, I misread foreground as background, because I remember those
blue DOS screens.  It seems DOS users don't like blue screens nowadays.

>> But there is no color for 8-color terminals which does not stand out.
>
> I think blue and green do not stand out on 8-color terminals as much
> as the red color.

Blue and green are no less noticeable than red.

> Also note that the way you defined the face, 16-color terminals will
> also use red, although there are some more colors there that do not
> stand out.  In fact, any terminal with fewer than 88 colors will use
> red.

There are no too much colors among 16 colors to select from.
Brightred is even worse than red.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-28  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1CZoXW-0007hE-UW@lists.gnu.org>
     [not found] ` <E1Ca4Kt-00067g-EH@fencepost.gnu.org>
2004-12-03  9:18   ` [Emacs-trunk-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/faces.el Kim F. Storm
2004-12-04  2:48     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-05 17:52       ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-05 18:32         ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-06  1:40         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-07 22:40           ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-07 23:48             ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08  8:47               ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-08 15:16                 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-08 22:15               ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-08 22:15             ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-12  9:19               ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-13  9:03                 ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-13 14:51                   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-13 19:51                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-13 23:41                   ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-14 23:22                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-17  0:54                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-19  9:41                       ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-21 11:21                         ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-23 20:39                           ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-14 12:32                   ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-15 10:56                     ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-15 11:21                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-15 12:01                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-15 14:58                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-15 16:14                       ` Kim F. Storm
2004-12-15 20:35                         ` Daniel Pfeiffer
2004-12-24  2:28                       ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-24 13:26                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2004-12-26 19:42                           ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-27  8:00                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-27 19:53                               ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-27 22:01                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-27 22:56                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2004-12-28 17:25                                     ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-28  2:38                                   ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-28  4:47                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-28  7:52                                       ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-12-28 20:36                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-29  0:22                                           ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-29  4:45                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-12-30  7:33                                               ` Juri Linkov
2004-12-30 14:21                                                 ` Alex Schroeder
2004-12-30 16:33                                                   ` Drew Adams
2004-12-30 20:59                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-28  4:57                                   ` Richard Stallman
2004-12-25 15:12                         ` Richard Stallman

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