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: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:12:54 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20090405230524.GB6124@muc.de> 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 1238980400 9973 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2009 01:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 01:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 06 03:14:39 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 1LqdQ5-0007Zg-FO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:14:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqdOg-0005VA-M6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqdOb-0005V5-9N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LqdOV-0005Ut-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:13:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53369 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LqdOV-0005Uq-NY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:58912) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LqdOT-0006eR-BC; Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:12:58 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.54]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n361CscN001698; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:12:54 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:12:54 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.70] [10.114.113.70]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:12:54 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 7D6DC52E24F; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:12:54 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20090405230524.GB6124@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:05:24 +0000") Original-Lines: 26 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:110079 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > C-M-h > > to mark the function. Note again the quality of the display (low :-(). > We have uniform pale grey text on a bright blue background, and the sole > remaining vestige of the font locking is that font-lock-keyword-face > (and one or two others) are in bold white rather than pale grey. I beg to differ -- it looks great to me (high-contrast, readable, usable). [not just on the linux console, either, but in every environment I tried it in -- X, xterm, gnome-terminal, light-background, black-background] You seem to be right that it's suppressing most of the font-locking in the highlighted area. I don't know exactly why it does so (whether this is intentional behavior or an artifact of the implementation), but it's not at all clear to me that this behavior is a bad thing -- region highlighting is generally temporary, and the text would very likely be _less_ readable if the font-locking was preserved (because the font-lock colors are designed to be readable with the standard background, and would in many cases be quite awful against the highlighted background). -Miles -- Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones.