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: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:30:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87hckt9z1u.fsf_-_@jurta.org> <878x0n1g86.fsf@jurta.org> <877ig50vta.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878x0kuagl.fsf@jurta.org> <87y78k2c2b.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205605918 10470 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2008 18:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 15 19:32:26 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 1JabAy-0007cm-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:32:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JabAP-0000hi-0W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JabAK-0000hR-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:31:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JabAJ-0000hD-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:31:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JabAJ-0000hA-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JabAJ-0005HH-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([83.130.249.251]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JXS00MQDC1WKRO0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:44:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87y78k2c2b.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:92688 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:20:00 +0200 > > From: Eli Zaretskii > Subject: Re: Re: 23.0.50; Middle w in of permissions in dired-mode is red and bold: dired-warning > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:37:07 +0200 > > IMO, this whole feature of highlighting attributes is an annoyance, > and the only reason I could live with it until now is because it > previously had a not-so-in-my-face color. Now someone made it glaring > red, which is too much for me. I was talking in the context of MS-Windows, where world-writable is the default behavior. Of course, I don't mind that this is turned off on Posix platforms as well, but I wouldn't press them into it. > You can expect the same angry reaction from other Emacs users after releasing > Emacs 22.2 without fixing this annoyance. This situation is much more rare on Posix platforms. Anyway, the only reason I object to this change is because we are too close to a release. But it's not my call. > > As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, such a change will effectively > > reintroduce the problem on text terminals that Martin Rudalics was > > trying to fix when he made dired-warn inherit from > > font-lock-warning-face. > > No, it fixes the original reported problem since font-lock-comment-delimiter-face > defines colors for text terminals. Yes, I stand corrected on this one. Sorry.