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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to *completely* disable font-lock mode in my .emacs?
Date: 28 Apr 2004 07:39:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4qr4slts.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qhk701hv1r.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> (message from Eric Smith on 27 Apr 2004 16:15:28 -0700)

> From: Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 27 Apr 2004 16:15:28 -0700
> 
> > in which case there's no way for Emacs to figure out whether your
> > background is dark or light, so it might guess wrong, in which case you
> > should customize frame-background-mode manually.
> 
> s/it might guess wrong/it does guess wrong/

In your case, perhaps.  In general, it does guess correctly in quite a
few cases.  If you still think Emacs _always_ guesses wrong, please
describe your reasons; one specific case---yours---is not enough to
justify a general claim.

> Why does it guess?

Because there's no method known to Emacs developers to query the
terminal about its default background color.

> the default assumption on a text terminal should be that the user
> does NOT want color.

That would be a bad default, since most Emacs users do want color on
the text terminal.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-28  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <qhfzba3sx4.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>
     [not found] ` <jwvad1gddzb.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@asado.iro.umontreal.ca>
2004-04-27 23:15   ` How to *completely* disable font-lock mode in my .emacs? Eric Smith
2004-04-27 23:36     ` Matthieu Moy
2004-04-28  5:39     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2079.1083127076.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-28 22:06       ` Eric Smith
2004-04-29  6:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2326.1083215256.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-29 20:01           ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-05-02 14:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-30  0:26           ` Eric Smith
2004-04-28 22:08       ` Eric Smith
2004-04-29  0:25         ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-04-29  6:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <87ekqu9e47.fsf@telia.com>
2004-04-27 23:26   ` Eric Smith
2004-04-28 15:12     ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-30  0:23       ` Eric Smith
2004-04-30 18:40         ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-05-02 14:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2916.1083503774.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-03 14:14           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-28 22:46 ` Jason Rumney
2004-04-29 17:29 Joe Corneli
     [not found] <mailman.2470.1083260541.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-04-30  0:20 ` Eric Smith
2004-04-30 18:32   ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-04-30 20:37     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <200404302054.i3UKsfq01028@dell3.ma.utexas.edu>
2004-05-01  0:51 ` Joe Corneli

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