From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Darkening font-lock colors Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <200907302221.n6UMLUWZ009001@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <87d47hoox5.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200907302139.n6ULdKCr008497@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87my6lrfzf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248992622 19404 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2009 22:23:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:23:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 00:23:35 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 1MWe2A-0002UK-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:23:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59970 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWe2A-00060X-12 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWe1u-0005rY-8y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MWe1q-0005q0-1Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37588 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MWe1p-0005pr-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from barrelv2.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.114]:62994) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MWe1p-0005Ix-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:13 -0400 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by barrelv2.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n6UMLUYg006492; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id n6UMLUWZ009001; Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:21:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87my6lrfzf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:57:40 -0400") Original-Lines: 25 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: n6UMLUYg006492 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:113431 Archived-At: Chong Yidong writes: > Dan Nicolaescu writes: > > > > This does not alter the existing color scheme, except for darkening the > > > fainter colors. (The dark-background color scheme seems to be fine.) > > > > What do they look on a light gray background? While not the default, > > many people use a light gray background (like gray91) because white is > > too bright. > > See attached. One a LightGray background, font-lock-string-face is > almost illegible by default IMO. I see no reason to change font-lock-variable-name-face, seems readable enough, and its too similar to font-lock-string-face after the change. Maybe font-lock-string-face could use some change. I don't have a problem with the current colors for the rest of the faces... Please also test on a 256 color xterm (with both white and light gray background), the colors are very very similar, but not all are completely identical...