On 11/06/2014 11:14 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Someone posted a patch last year or so, that made it possible to tweak
>>> in Elisp the computation of faces (IIRC it was around the discussion
>>> of the fallback-background color, to try and dynamically compute the
>>> background face to use for the region, so that it's always visible).
>> Perhaps you are thinking of this message by Daniel Colascione?:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01272.html
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>> Unfortunately, this very promising approach (which it seems would
>> minimise the need for turning off "colourisation" in buffers just to be
>> able to see the text) seemed to get derailed by bickering over defaults.
> 
> The discussion was about what to do for the 24.4 release, and it wasn't
> a good time to make such fundamental changes.
> 
> Now would be a good time to add such functionality.

Any serious objection to merging the patch in a form close to what's in
that message?