Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

HI, Yidong!

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:10:06PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> > 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)

> See the definition of the `region' face in faces.el.  On displays with
> sufficient colors, the face definition sets just :background, leaving
> the remaining face attributes unspecified; those will generally be set
> from the font-lock face.

> On 8-color displays, both :background and :foreground is set.  This is
> quite reasonable, because of the paucity of colors on such displays.

I disagree - precisely because of this paucity of colours, it is
unreasonable to override both.  Font locking is important.  The contrast
between a highlit region and a font locked region (the current setup
excludes a combination of both) is too violent.  

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).