RE: [PATCH] Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > As you note, the lack of contrast is a general problem for all cases
> > when more than one face can be applied.  But no user has been
> > sufficiently annoyed to file a bug report except for the selection
> > case, so it has been an ignored/unknown problem.  In hindsight, I kind
> > of regret trying to fix this and thus put focus on the issue.
> > I should have done as has been done in the past, just ignore the whole
> > issue.
> 
> Yuri is right. We should do more to try to fix this issue.

As the one who pointed out that this "issue" is not limited to `region'
highlighting, since there are other kinds of selection highlighting in
Emacs, and so this "issue" is not limited to `region' highlighting, let me
repeat why I mentioned that:

There is NO issue/problem, even with the several such kinds of selection
highlighting, if you just drop the notion that selection highlighting
should not mask font-lock highlighting.

IOW, just drop trying to fix the non-bug, and there is no problem.  The
various selection highlightings (isearch, region, secondary-selection,
etc.) just need to work out any priority conflicts that might arise
among them.  And so far, there are no such conflicts, AFAIK.

It is only by introducing the desire to see font-lock highlighting along
with such selection highlighting that you create a nightmare scenario.

> I'm still at a loss as to why you and Drew are so adamantly opposed to
> generating colors.

I am not opposed to generating colors.  I do it all the time.  I've
written a fair amount of code that does that in various ways.