From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Christian Faulhammer <fauli@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: colours in diff-mode
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:02:20 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoiqn8sb0j.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy6w4y0pr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:50:54 -0500")
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.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 16:05 colours in diff-mode Christian Faulhammer
2009-02-17 19:52 ` Miles Bader
2009-02-18 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-18 3:02 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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