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: Diff mode faces Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:37:15 +0900 Message-ID: References: <87oea5urwm.fsf@jurta.org> <87psujj0h0.fsf@jurta.org> <86hdfv1y9b.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <87r7eyqzcy.fsf@jurta.org> <200506191710.j5JHAEN11479@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <877jgfi40l.fsf@jurta.org> <871x6iym81.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120276219 26569 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 03:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 03:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: merlyn@stonehenge.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 05:50:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoZ0v-0002d9-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:49:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoZ9V-0003yC-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoZ6E-00031X-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoZ61-0002w3-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoZ60-0002q9-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.201] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoYtt-0004w1-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 23:42:41 -0400 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so480925wra for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:37:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NYQNuHAPMeziqq5rtgluGYtqM5tfPWbg31Pn8ceOjOqxCjsSVGauqFgdKsQeQUIkaW6391lv03EIjn1GGw81peCgoiJJVgfldVmnEeeshMQv6uhfFWHtt2pOvgF3Eq7sKc0dZBmPJMqqSWK3XgpyfCd903XME/CCU7f+gO4g0jY= Original-Received: by 10.54.34.16 with SMTP id h16mr2089516wrh; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.158.20 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <871x6iym81.fsf@jurta.org> Content-Disposition: inline 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:40081 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40081 2005/7/2, Juri Linkov : > > The diff-mode colors on a dark-background terminal (gnome-terminal or > > generic xterm) are: ... > > These colors work very well and should not be changed >=20 > Bold text is unreadable on terminals with small fonts. I have not found this to be the case. > The changed lines is the base text which users mostly read in the > diff-mode, so it makes sense not to highlight it at all and to use the > default foreground. Most other modes do the same and don't highlight > normal text. As for the context lines, to distinguish them from the > changed lines, dark-background terminals could use yellow-on-black, > and light-background terminals - maybe, green. No. Indeed that's just stupid. Making the context lines green or whatever would make them stand out over the changed lines, which is _precisely the opposite_ of what we want to do. On a high-color display (like X11, usually), we can dim the context lines, and so achieve our goal of making the changed lines stand out while keeping them in the normal default face; the latter point, however, is _not_ the main goal! On a low-color terminal, we often simply don't have the flexibility to do those two things at the same time; in such a case, we must discard the less important guideline, and pick something which at least makes the important lines stand out. The current dark-background colors achieve this, and should not be changed. -Miles --=20 Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.