Is there anything preventing color-theme.el from being included in Emacs?
That way themes could be provided to better account for particular user
tastes.


--Stephen

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       A red eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate
monsters.


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>   > >   > > Given that you are changing faces, how about changing the dark
>  > >   > > background, 8 color font-lock-comment-face to "yellow", then we
> can
>  > >   > > obsolete `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face'.
>  > >   >
>  > >   > Why yellow?
>  > >
>  > > It has good contrast with the black background and it is only used by
>  > > font-lock-variable-face on an 8 color dark background terminal.
>  >
>  > Then yellow would be good for font-lock-comment-face, but I think
>  > font-lock-comment-delimiter should stay in red.
>
> Why?  font-lock-comment-delimiter is a hack.
> And an unnecessary complication.
> It was only introduced because the red foreground used on an 8 color
> dark background terminal was not readable.
> font-lock-comment-delimiter it is currently only used for 8 color dark
> background terminals.
>
> The problem is that this is confusing for users: we got many bug reports
> about syntax coloring not working because the users saw the body of the
> comments not being syntax highlighted.  Distributions (Debian, Ubuntu
> and probably others too) patched this out by using red for
> font-lock-comment-face, effectively defeating the purpose of why
> font-lock-comment-delimiter was introduced.
>
> So I am proposing to simplify this whole thing by removing the reason
> for font-lock-comment-delimiter to exist: use a readable yellow
> foreground on 8 color dark background terminals.
>
>
>