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* RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors
@ 2007-03-25 10:53 Jari Aalto
  2007-03-25 13:31 ` Miles Bader
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 29+ messages in thread
From: Jari Aalto @ 2007-03-25 10:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel


The color control is turned on by default in 21.3 (which I use in
Windows)

   comint-highlight-prompt

This is causing unreadable terminal output when terminal's background
is dark. Using xterm/rxvt with custom dark backgound setting makes the
Emacs M-x shell buffer quite problematic. Similarly in Windows, the
popular Putty terminal by default uses black background.

There are two possiblilities

1) comint-highlight-prompt is set to nil by default
2) comint-highlight-prompt face is modified. The current "cyan" is
   not optimal. Unofrtunately any color could possibly be unreadable
   in user's selected terminal and background

I don't see variable `comint-highlight-prompt' (1) in latest CVS
comint.el. I think it should be reintroduced, because sometimes colors
are not working correctly and one wants to work in "plain" mode (just
like without font-lock).

The best solution would be not to turn on any colors by default.

Jari

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2007-03-25 10:53 RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors Jari Aalto
2007-03-25 13:31 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-25 15:18   ` Jari Aalto
2007-03-25 20:11     ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-03-26  7:26       ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2007-03-25 23:43     ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26  5:12       ` Jari Aalto
2007-03-26  5:44         ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26  7:22           ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2007-03-26 20:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-26  7:56           ` Romain Francoise
2007-03-26  9:24             ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26  9:34               ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2007-03-26 10:05                 ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26 10:22                   ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2007-03-26 12:17                     ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26 12:45                       ` tomas
2007-03-26 13:27                         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-26 21:08                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-27  1:34                           ` Miles Bader
2007-03-27  2:18                             ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-03-27  4:02                               ` Miles Bader
2007-03-29 14:44                           ` tomas
2007-03-29 16:10                             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-30  5:16                               ` tomas
2007-03-26 14:51                       ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2007-03-26 16:51                         ` Miles Bader
2007-03-26 13:28                     ` Robert J. Chassell
2007-03-26 16:24           ` Dan Nicolaescu

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