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: Darkening font-lock colors Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:28:05 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87my6lrfzf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200907302221.n6UMLUWZ009001@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <4A722F7B.20101@harpegolden.net> <87d47hisbq.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87zlahrggt.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87tz0pg1uk.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <877hxctqqi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200908100237.n7A2b8Q5020569@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249874963 19669 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2009 03:29:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , Chong Yidong , Lennart Borgman , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Juri Linkov , Stefan Monnier To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 05:29:15 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 1MaLZS-0004V1-Ut for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:29:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLZS-0004Lq-BJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLYZ-0003wM-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:28:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLYU-0003uZ-PG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40746 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaLYU-0003uT-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:28:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:7662) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaLYQ-0008LW-V7; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.193]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaLYP-0001Fu-OL; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n7A3RXMh017702; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:28:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.20] [10.29.19.20]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:28:05 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.114.224] [10.114.114.224]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:28:05 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id C60F352E23E; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:28:05 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200908100237.n7A2b8Q5020569@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:37:08 -0700 (PDT)") Original-Lines: 26 X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:113937 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > I propose to use Magenta3 for font-lock-builtin, PaleVioletRed3 for > > font-lock-string and return font-lock-variable back to DarkGoldenrod. > > > > These colors are: > > > > 1. Readable; > > 2. Clearly distinguishable from other colors; > > 3. Close to original colors. > > > > This is a comparison chart of 3 color schemes: Emacs22, current colors > > in CVS, and proposed new colors: > > Thanks for doing this, if you are looking for opinions: your way is > better that both the current CVS and emacs22. I disagree. Juri's proposed colors look way too faded out -- i.e., hard to read (emacs22 colors suffered from the same problem), and are more irritating to boot (magenta should not be used for text!). The current CVS colors are better. -Miles -- Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.