From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:43:08 +0900 Message-ID: <87slbsyjn7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <87y7llxxdu.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174866208 6508 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2007 23:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jari Aalto Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 26 01:43:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVcMq-0004WW-Bt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVcP1-0007RG-AA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVcOx-0007R7-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVcOv-0007Qu-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVcOv-0007Qr-D8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:45:29 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVcMi-0002t6-Qp; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-100-100.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.100.100] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1HVcMg-0002Bd-8i; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:43:10 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A72A62F43; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:43:08 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Jari Aalto's message of "25 Mar 2007 17\:18\:51 +0200") Original-Lines: 27 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:68553 Archived-At: Jari Aalto writes: > The default color selected is still a problem for completely black > background. Would there be better alternative to currently used "cyan"? Cyan was carefully chosen for use on a black background, and on all the displays I have, it looks great -- it's close enough in brightness to the default text color (white) that while it clearly stands out, it doesn't stand out "too much" (which would make it distracting). That is on a display that shows colors directly (X11). TTY displays are somewhat more tricky. Unfortunately there is some variance in the way various terminal emulators render colors (e.g., rxvt and xterm both use "xterm" as a terminal type, but use different brightness for some colors). However as far as I've tested, cyan looks as good as anything on typical terminal emulators. There just aren't many choices on a typical terminal (I tried "green", it is actually less visible than cyan on my display using gnome-terminal in xterm/rxvt/etc emulation modes). -Miles -- What the fuck do white people have to be blue about!? Banana Republic ran out of Khakis? The Espresso Machine is jammed? Hootie and The Blowfish are breaking up??! Shit, white people oughtta understand, their job is to GIVE people the blues, not to get them! -- George Carlin