colours in diff-mode

colours in diff-mode

[Christian Faulhammer]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 372 bytes --]

Hi,

in my eyes the diff-mode is really bad-looking in an X frame due to the
lack of colours.  Interestingly enough, a terminal frame shows some
more of them.  Is this intended?  And can this be changed?

V-Li

-- 
Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project
<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode

<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --]

Re: colours in diff-mode

[Miles Bader]

Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org> writes:
> in my eyes the diff-mode is really bad-looking in an X frame due to the
> lack of colours.  Interestingly enough, a terminal frame shows some
> more of them.  Is this intended?

Yes (the lack of colors, obviously not that it be "bad looking" :)

> And can this be changed?

You can change the diff faces in your personal emacs:

   M-x customize-group RET diff-mode RET

-Miles

-- 
You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.

Re: colours in diff-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> in my eyes the diff-mode is really bad-looking in an X frame due to the
> lack of colours.  Interestingly enough, a terminal frame shows some
> more of them.  Is this intended?

It reflects my taste.  As you can see, I like my hilighting to be rather
subdued, using nuances of grey (which I typically accompany with changes
of fonts, like italics, bold, ...) rather than the customary
angry-fruit-salad.

Other people chose the faces used on a tty, which is why it's so
different there.


        Stefan

Re: colours in diff-mode

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> It reflects my taste.  As you can see, I like my hilighting to be
> rather subdued, using nuances of grey (which I typically accompany
> with changes of fonts, like italics, bold, ...) rather than the
> customary angry-fruit-salad.
>
> Other people chose the faces used on a tty, which is why it's so
> different there.

The difference isn't entirely due to taste, I think -- it's much harder
to do "subtle" on an 8-color tty, and IIRC, the non-fruit-salad schemes
suggested for use on ttys were ... not very nice (whereas the X scheme
is pretty good).

-Miles

-- 
Year, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.