From: Mitchel Humpherys <mitch.special@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Kristoffer Gronlund <krig@koru.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] * etc/themes/wombat-theme.el: Don't set foreground on region
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:22:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poux9dpm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c37db131-57cf-4c32-885f-975e0b21a2be@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:53:45 -0800 (PST)")
On Sun, Feb 28 2016 at 06:53:45 AM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> > Setting a foreground color on the `region' face is slightly
>> > annoying.
>> > This is subjective, of course, but the consensus among other
>> > themes and around the web is to *not* set a foreground color
>> > on the region face.
>>
>> Any objections to this? I should have mentioned that the reason
>> it's slightly annoying is because setting a foreground color hides
>> existing syntax highlighting within the region text.
>
> A particular theme can do anything its authors and users want,
> of course. But wrt the general question of whether region (aka
> selection) highlighting should override other highlighting, see
> Emacs bug #15899.
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15899
>
> IMO, selection highlighting should, at least by default, visibly
> cover the entire selection. Otherwise, it is not always clear
> what the region limits are.
Just to be clear, when I said "syntax highlighting" I meant it in the
general sense of colors applied to the *foreground* of code in order to
highlight the syntax of the language. I believe you're referring to
background highlighting, which shouldn't be affected by this patch.
--
Mitch
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-14 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-23 1:04 [PATCH] * etc/themes/wombat-theme.el: Don't set foreground on region Mitchel Humpherys
2016-02-28 6:05 ` Mitchel Humpherys
2016-02-28 6:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-28 8:13 ` Kristoffer Grönlund
2016-02-28 15:53 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-14 17:22 ` Mitchel Humpherys [this message]
2016-03-14 17:31 ` Drew Adams
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