Re: Info faces

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dave Love <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:39:38 +0100
> 
>  MB> [Of course another question is, if it's an xterm, should emacs
>  MB> try to read the X resources and see what the real fg/bg colors
>  MB> are?]
> 
> That wouldn't make any sense in the typical use of running in a remote
> telnet session.

Sorry, I don't follow: a remote telnet session is either not an xterm
session (in which case resources will fail), or runs on an X client,
in which case treating it as a local xterm session is the Right Thing.
Am I missing something?

> By the way, even if the default for the xterm background is light,
> IIRC vanilla RedHat systems default to some nasty colour scheme with a
> dark background, and they're probably some of the most common ones of
> interest to us.

Can we detect that case somehow?