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 17:56:28 +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> <1mlm3qdql1.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> 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 1037696419 11476 80.91.224.249 (19 Nov 2002 09:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:00:19 +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 18E4Ex-0002ym-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:00:16 +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 18E4C6-0005nh-00; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18E4BW-0005MY-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 18E4BS-0005Lb-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18E4BQ-0005Je-00; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 03:56:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.197]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id gAJ8uWi08145; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:56:32 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id gAJ8uUk12729; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:56:31 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id gAJ8uT213368; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:56:29 +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 gAJ8uTB14536; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:56:29 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 0DF473815; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:56:28 +0900 (JST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <1mlm3qdql1.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> Original-Lines: 25 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:3753 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3753 Fredrik Staxeng 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 -- Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia