From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:13:49 -0400 Message-ID: <87lhno9jeq.fsf@moondust.localdomain> References: <874muenb56.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87egtivwop.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k33951ey.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415304877 3210 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2014 20:14:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:14:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 06 21:14:32 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 1XmTRv-00038r-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:14:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55895 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmTRu-0003SW-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:14:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45561) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmTRa-0003MM-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:14:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmTRS-0004CJ-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:14:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmTRS-0004CE-0a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:14:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XmTRQ-0002ec-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:14:00 +0100 Original-Received: from t876c.wpa.dal.ca ([134.190.135.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:14:00 +0100 Original-Received: from nljlistbox2 by t876c.wpa.dal.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:14:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: t876c.wpa.dal.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VX8CDk8UagIY7Fth2JF4e2CVZ18= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:176486 Archived-At: At 11:02 -0400 on Wednesday 2014-11-05, 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 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. Regards, N. Jackson