From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; Middle w in of permissions in dired-mode is red and bold: dired-warning Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:21:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hckt9z1u.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <878x0n1g86.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205382168 13984 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 04:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 05:23:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZeyF-0001dC-74 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:23:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZexg-0002u0-3d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZexa-0002tV-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZexY-0002sB-56 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZexX-0002rr-UY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZexX-0004y5-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.37.133]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JXN00KCNJEL0JG1@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:35:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <878x0n1g86.fsf@jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:92368 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:19:37 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > When testing Emacs 22 with `emacs -Q', I see that dired buffers are > almost unusable by default. The red bold face for write permissions > is very distracting that prevents focusing on other parts of the dired > buffer. I'm afraid Emacs users will hate us for this if we release > Emacs 22.2 with this annoyance. > > I propose a patch below for the 22 branch that renames the face > `dired-warn-writable' to more appropriate name `dired-perm-write' > that doesn't associate it with a warning, and changes its parent face > from `font-lock-warning-face' to `font-lock-comment-delimiter-face' > on non-Windows platforms. I object. I think now is not the time for making behavioral changes in the release branch. We are too close to the release.