From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bad default faces now Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:25 -0400 Message-ID: <877hp4e5pi.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269272065 6057 80.91.229.12 (22 Mar 2010 15:34:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:34:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 22 16:34:21 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ntjdz-0001tW-5x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:34:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ntjdy-0003xw-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:34:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NtjYL-0004IU-AI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60543 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NtjYK-0004Gn-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtjYI-0004lt-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.119]:45419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtjYI-0004li-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014175.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po25.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o2MFSP3Z000849 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F09A7C011; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:28:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:36:54 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:122482 Archived-At: Leo writes: > I also hope that 23.2 will not have the colour scheme it has in 23.1.94. > It makes lisp source code visually very difficult to read, for example. > May it be possible to invite someone who is good at designing colour > themes to contribute or learn from other editor such as textmate? Unfortunately it seems to depend somewhat on the particular monitor. On some monitors, some of the 23.1 colors were difficult to distinguish from a white background, which is the most important thing.