From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How do I avoid purple-on-black and yellow-on-white? Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:41:44 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87r47jybg2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391474525 7335 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2014 00:42:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 00:42:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs development To: "Trent W. Buck" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 04 01:42:11 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 1WAU5b-0002yz-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:42:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50232 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAU5a-0004wC-Rl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:42:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAU5W-0004w7-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAU5W-0007wh-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vc0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c03::231]:34331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAU5V-0007wV-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 19:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id if11so5194851vcb.8 for ; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:42:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=7FiZlydIV9Xs6mrKnkprDWGwZsi7hqBxKaY39gbZQDI=; b=Kz/pgK/CTleYL1dGoaU7zPP0kD7xNjeMWKgR2fQZcacjuMxGT+W+t+XjGCnViU5TwX V5bK2M59Nwiw6rzUaxLrXeHbLhoKSkW5EYYBCHs5/cx/RJNB8cTSsBhaCZjSZBb+UgN/ VsegsAoJq2fWqLiTNaSIr9P0msL+T8dlodv5kcK0oRLGmgagqPrTuhKlivwGPrfZtgJt LSaeHrrm1HYkGCF3z6tGanBR6gstGzV1fRLizEkeTuFO/I2WjDPGkwiccNWJnhLgC6gN 8jvm1KP4/9J76Afb59SGZvvlKYkkTxh9PgfzW+uw7dBg0sqZI0DClLatx6lCy6DRi//i n58Q== X-Received: by 10.52.189.33 with SMTP id gf1mr5916364vdc.26.1391474524268; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:42:04 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.220.148.145 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:41:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87r47jybg2.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c03::231 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:169373 Archived-At: I guess I am just lazy. I don't care about setting weirdo terminal modes. I am not interested in a full palate of subtle color differences. Black and white worked just fine. Having several contrasting colors is very nice so I can see a clear distinction between comments and regular code. That is all very nice indeed. But when you start having dozens of colors, the contrast between some of the colors is not going to be very great. But there should be a few fundamental rules that emacs obeys: 1. if the background is white, do not use yellow for anything 2. if the background is dark, do not use purple or dark blue for anything. If you want a subtle color difference between normal comments and Doxygenated comments, fine. It is just simply that the contrast between any characters and their background *MUST NOT BE SUBTLE* and I should not be required to go do hours of research to figure out how to fiddle settings so that it doesn't happen. I bumped into dark purple on black and the result could not be read (without highlighting the text, and even then it was not easy.) Thank you. Regards, Bruce