From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:07:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87bnzo9cja.fsf@gnu.org> <59B7E7FC-48D0-4737-B1BB-FFAC5BA9E07A@swipnet.se> <874n5f3162.fsf@gnu.org> <83fvozf86g.fsf@gnu.org> <87r48javwe.fsf@gnu.org> <83bnzmfjxe.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnzlyvwb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389287296 30603 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 17:08:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier , Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 18:08:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1J5f-00031I-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 18:08:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53180 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1J5c-00016E-HL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:08:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1J5R-00014B-5s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:08:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1J5I-000874-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:08:05 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:47844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1J59-00082g-83; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:07:47 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id s09H7j3s016860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:07:46 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s09H7jHF015100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:07:45 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s09H7irX015080; Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:07:44 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167943 Archived-At: > > been a source of annoyance over the years. Introducing another > > such situation should, in my view, be avoided as far as possible. >=20 > That's a good point. Basically, what you're saying is that instead > of :distant-foreground we could have a :foreground that can be of > the form (NORMAL-FOREGROUND . ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND), where > ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND is used when NORMAL-FOREGROUND would lead to a > lack of contrast. Please don't. That too would break code that expects :foreground to be as it is now.