From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 05:51:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83fvdtowuk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a944cm3x.fsf@moondust.localdomain> <83r3xfs8mx.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3xeqfa9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415505116 14243 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2014 03:51:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 03:51:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, cloos@jhcloos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 09 04:51:47 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XnJXW-0002bi-QT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 04:51:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnJXW-000232-CI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:51:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45136) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnJXO-00022v-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnJXG-0007lm-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:51:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnJXG-0007jH-Hc; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 22:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NER00900637RH00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 05:51:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NER009EO6PSH280@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 05:51:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176613 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: nljlistbox2@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 02:30:10 +0100 > > But if it's about rendering text under a terminal, I think the best > general fix is to disable all colourisation unless Emacs can determine > what the background colour actually is. Not by default, please. Give users an option to do that, but don't unnecessarily rob them of colors, just because we have a few cases where the result is problematic. > This is a general problem that has plagued Emacs' colour selection > thing for yonks, but hasn't really been addressed. I'm not aware of such a problem, perhaps you should file a bug report with specific examples.