From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Turning off colorization Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:14:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874muenb56.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <87egtivwop.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87k33951ey.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lhno9jeq.fsf@moondust.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415315724 18533 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2014 23:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 23:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: nljlistbox2@gmail.com (N. Jackson) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 07 00:15:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XmWGr-0001Rj-IW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:15:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmWGq-00006E-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmWGY-0008Vu-AF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmWGS-0002er-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:36816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmWGS-0002el-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:14:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id sA6NEkKC002914; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 13E1066125; Thu, 6 Nov 2014 18:14:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87lhno9jeq.fsf@moondust.localdomain> (N. Jackson's message of "Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:13:49 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5117=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5117> : inlines <1498> : streams <1337177> : uri <1833029> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176494 Archived-At: >> Someone posted a patch last year or so, that made it possible to tweak >> in Elisp the computation of faces (IIRC it was around the discussion >> of the fallback-background color, to try and dynamically compute the >> background face to use for the region, so that it's always visible). > Perhaps you are thinking of this message by Daniel Colascione?: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg01272.html Indeed. > Unfortunately, this very promising approach (which it seems would > minimise the need for turning off "colourisation" in buffers just to be > able to see the text) seemed to get derailed by bickering over defaults. The discussion was about what to do for the 24.4 release, and it wasn't a good time to make such fundamental changes. Now would be a good time to add such functionality. Stefan