From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: suggestion: blue default for new face `window-divider' Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:16:46 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877g9go6kd.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <27053922-2ceb-46ec-ae23-06c651270682@default> <87zjmdm04u.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391159873 21192 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2014 09:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 31 10:18:00 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 1W9AEY-0001sk-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:17:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53888 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9AEX-0001nx-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:17:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35758) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9AEP-0001i1-68 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:17:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9AEJ-0007WS-8F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [69.163.184.122] (port=35867 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W9AEJ-0007WE-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost.jurta.org (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.184.122]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8337C302BA9289; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 01:17:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87zjmdm04u.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:05:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 69.163.184.122 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:169263 Archived-At: >> Subject line says it all. Consider making the window divider more >> noticeable by making it a blue line - same color as links (active). > > I tried this, but found it distracting. Once you know it's there, it > must not be that "shining". I use grey40 now. The face `vertical-border' inherits from `mode-line-inactive' which is grey by default, so `window-divider' could do the same. PS: I don't understand why there are two identical faces `vertical-border' and `window-divider'. With no scroll bars, evaluating (set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'right-divider-width 0) uses the `vertical-border' face, and allows resizing windows by dragging the vertical line. And after (set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'right-divider-width 1) `vertical-border' is replaced by `window-divider' with exactly the same behavior. Shouldn't these faces be merged?