From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 09:09:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h7j1ylr4.fsf@telefonica.net> <87cztpylgi.fsf@telefonica.net> <878s4czyr2.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18092"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:N0+1JPjWoo3IeZt3ADLV0ImxJLw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 15:10:46 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lizUj-0004XX-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 15:10:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lizUi-0002bh-JB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 09:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58034) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lizU7-0002Xh-KC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 09:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lizU5-0004VZ-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 09:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lizU4-0003eu-4b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 15:10:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129885 Archived-At: > Could emacs internally figure out the colour settings and determine if > the contrast between the foreground and background is high enough. > And if not high enough to change the foreground and background colour. It could but that would prevent such settings being made on purpose. AFAICT your current problems are due to Xresource settings, which are usually things the user sets explicitly, so it would be odd for Emacs to ignore/override explicit user settings. > Particularly when user supplies the -q option whilst debugging. `-q` is not for debugging: `-Q` is. Stefan