Re: Some xterm-256color face colors too bright?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: stktrc <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:48:49 +0200
>> 
>> Comparing terminal RosyBrown and windowed RosyBrown as background
>> colors gives that terminal RosyBrown is slightly brighter, but the
>> difference is not huge.
>> [...]
>> I want to stress that the brightness of the colors in the terminal are
>> not just an aesthetical annoyance or anything like that: it borders on
>> making the text unreadable.  In windowed Emacs, everything is fine.

> ??? These two paragraphs seem to contradict one another: the first one
[...]
> unreadable'' vs ``everything is fine'').  I wonder how can this
> happen.  Can you shed some light on this?

He also said:

   Comparing them as foreground colors gives a larger difference (text in
   the window RosyBrown being readable, while in terminal RosyBrown
   considerably-less-readable).


-- Stefan