From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "ferkiwi@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Color themes Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:21:16 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8763d516ox.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <874osim3df.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <87d475lmc1.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <874oshx8p2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <20a0c1020908100212p32dd463ao8a9a33d7edbf960f@mail.gmail.com> <87hbwfc87c.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: ferkiwi+a@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250014974 12464 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2009 18:22:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , Chong Yidong , Lennart Borgman , joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Leo , Dan Nicolaescu , Stefan Monnier , Drew Adams , Miles Bader To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 20:22:44 2009 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 1Mavze-0001Di-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:22:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54208 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mavzd-0004LR-9W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mavyi-0004Da-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mavye-0004Bj-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54807 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mavye-0004Bf-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:21:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f205.google.com ([209.85.220.205]:37828) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mavyc-0007Kp-6K; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:21:38 -0400 Original-Received: by fxm1 with SMTP id 1so3099013fxm.31 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OsYXptr7DHjLCBcum4MUFu/sSHC2jp0TAS7wlKpLRjA=; b=D6JQuB7tdZbwhHpiDAggKhN5IAuGaeJBas++Hl+5ENqWHJkvMpezr3dE7OVLk4SB3q bUAE/Re27PrvtzgTCXRrgW0yzNaQQ0NmPghobiq/uYwI2CmsUTFlOFqkK26uA4qT8WR0 w+AP+NIuG3nz2WnP0MaDLlg8BVi5nJ4izBimE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=arPaXplzK7f6mQeG510E0s385U2pxj5Lvo0L1EmQM36uCiguTv3KM1rAgQs/8ibSQ+ PYBqLJ3kihLkq7ofnOYlZcnj8c02hrVxphNrmfYncNdy1TpNWtn5q5JiscxVpm3x5cPr QRoTkaIv3oCEPHYmKY7/Yb8exSvteZaJV1wlQ= Original-Received: by 10.223.121.136 with SMTP id h8mr799488far.26.1250014896192; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:114088 Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Leo wrote: > I see inheritance as a convenient tool for defining new faces, but not > an effective tool for enforce consistency. Even if all faces inherit > from more basic ones, they can still choose to use different colours and > in reality this is what happens. Personally, when I have to choose a color theme I prefer the theme that has the most different and distinguishable colors. There are some color-themes that have the very same color for many different faces and I think that's defeating the point of selective highlighting. I like when I'm able to know what's the role of a word by looking at its unique color. I like to be able to give specific colors to flymake-errline or hl-line faces, they would be kind of unusable if they had the same colors from a reduced basic set (I can't use hl-line-mode with emacs in a terminal because of this, it's not comfortable for me to have such a bright line due to the reduced set of terminal colors). So, while I agree that inheriting colors is good for making it easy to develop new themes, I think that allowing the themes to change selectively the color of "non-standard" faces is also good, imho. And I think this two things are not mutually excluding. -- Fernando