Re: face at point

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

Fredrik Staxeng <fstx+u@update.uu.se> writes:
> > 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.
>         ^^^^^^^
> 
> This is neither possible or desirable.

Whether it's `desirable' or not, I really don't know -- but it seems
like a non-unreasonable default position.

As for possible, of course it's sometimes not possible, but quite often
it is.  When it isn't possible to use _literally_ the same color, I'll
usually try to use something similar in spirit, e.g., if the existing
default is something like dark-blue, which looks good against a
light-background, but not against a dark-background, I'll often try to
use a light-blue for the dark-background case instead.

And lastly, please don't be so condescending.  We may have different
tastes than you in some cases, but we aren't idiots.

-Miles
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