From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: face at point Date: 19 Nov 2002 10:55:34 +0900 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vg2v6crn.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> <87bs4nls2p.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87n0o75sp1.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> <87el9i5y8q.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037671117 8129 80.91.224.249 (19 Nov 2002 01:58:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Dxet-00026r-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 02:58:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18Dxeb-00006N-00; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:58:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18DxeJ-0008C7-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18DxeH-0008A2-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:57:58 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DxeG-00084p-00; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id gAJ1vri10966; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:57:53 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id gAJ1tgk07335; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:57:44 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id gAJ1tZd14105; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:55:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id gAJ1tYB01008; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:55:34 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 4FC353815; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:55:34 +0900 (JST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87el9i5y8q.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> Original-Lines: 28 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3737 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3737 Tim Cross writes: > Would you consider the default colour for cited text in gnus when > following up to a post as being "broken" because its "red" on a black > background? Personally, I find this difficult to read, but maybe > others would not. I don't particularly like this default, and in fact have it changed in my personal configuration, but looking at the default now, I find it more `annoying' than `difficult to read.' I presume that the intent of using that particular sort of (somewhat dim) color is to make the cited text recede into the background, so that the text you're typing stands out. [I personally use `Orange2'; what do you think of that?] As always, tastes vary, so it's possible that this _has_ been discussed and no consensus to change it reached, but Emacs (and Gnus in particular) has so many different faces that maybe everybody found it easier to change it personally rather than to argue about it. As Eli said in an earlier message, there is an informal policy to try to keep the light-background and dark-background variants of a face at least `similar,' which sometimes complicates things. What color do you use for this face? -Miles -- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --Albert Einstein