From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jari.aalto@cante.net (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:22:44 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: References: <87y7llxxdu.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87slbsyjn7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87wt14a158.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174904623 10892 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2007 10:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:23:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 26 12:23:31 2007 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 1HVmMM-0006Nv-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:23:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVmOa-0002O8-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:25:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVmOV-0002O1-Su for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVmOT-0002Nm-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVmOT-0002Nj-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVmME-0007KG-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HVmM3-0000kR-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([81.197.175.198]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:23:11 +0200 Original-Received: from jari.aalto by a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:23:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a81-197-175-198.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8RDFODD7ScZzGPVerbMu3F423so= X-detected-kernel: 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:68584 Archived-At: * Mon 2007-03-26 Miles Bader gmane.emacs.devel * Message-Id: buo3b3sz5et.fsf AT dhapc248.dev.necel.com > jari.aalto@cante.net (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes: >> ...general >> problem, nothing special to my environment. The problem also happens >> if user changes the background of rxvt (see previous pictures) at >> least under Cygwin X11. > > No, you are confused. You clearly haven't read my replies very > carefully. Was it "... should customize `frame-background-mode' to match his environment." Now I'm confused. Should this problem be left to every putty (or dark background term) user? I understood that the the code doesn't get enough information to decide the correct dark/light environment in presented cases. So it might guesses wrong, and the results are pretty bad with the select default color. >> Would not default value 'bold, instead of cyan, work better? > > No. Do you have in use cases where 'bold would not work? Jari