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Re: face at point
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: face at point |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:56:30 +0200 (IST) |
On 19 Nov 2002, Fredrik Staxeng wrote:
> Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:
>
> >As Eli said in an earlier message, there is an informal policy to try
> >to keep the light-background and dark-background variants of a face at
> >least `similar,' which sometimes complicates things.
> ^^^^^^^
>
> This is neither possible or desirable.
I think it's desirable whenever it's possible ;-)
That is, if we can come up with similar foreground colors that look well
on both light and dark backgrounds, there's nothing wrong with using them.
When it's impossible to have similar colors on both types of background,
Emacs defines different colors.
The rationale for using similar colors is so that users won't need to
relearn the meaning of each color when they switch background modes. For
example, if a face for comments is always reddish, it helps the users to
find comments quickly in any mode on any display. By contrast, if a
comment is sometimes reddish and sometimes greenish, users might get
confused, and documentation is hard to write.
> A black background needs
> a light foreground color, and vice versa.
Sure, but they could be dark and light shades of the same or similar
colors.
> Yellow work against
> black background, but there is no yellowish color that works
> against white.
Really? Aren't dark goldenrod or similar look good enough on light
background? Are you saying that there's _no_ color in what
`list-colors-display' produces that's yellowish and is reasonably readable
on light background?
> Cyan and magenta work a _tiny_ bit better, you
> can read the text, but they still don't make good foregrounds
> on white.
I find that several shades of magenta are readable on the default light
background Emacs presents on X.
- Re: face at point, (continued)
- Re: face at point, Miles Bader, 2002/11/19
- Re: face at point, Kai Großjohann, 2002/11/19
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- Re: face at point, Tim Cross, 2002/11/18
- Re: face at point, Jesper Harder, 2002/11/18
- Re: face at point, Miles Bader, 2002/11/18
- Re: face at point, Miles Bader, 2002/11/18
- Re: face at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/11/19
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- Re: face at point, Tim Cross, 2002/11/19
- Re: face at point, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/11/19
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- Re: face at point, Fredrik Staxeng, 2002/11/19
- Re: face at point,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: face at point, Miles Bader, 2002/11/19
- Message not available
- Re: face at point, Fredrik Staxeng, 2002/11/19
Re: face at point, Fredrik Staxeng, 2002/11/19
Re: face at point, Tim Cross, 2002/11/19