Re: "modern" colors Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
>> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2020 22:13:30 +0200
>> Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>,
>>  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ghe@sdf.org, tecosaur@gmail.com
>> 
>> Interesting!  In my Emacs the background of the selection is close to
>> black, so for typed text that’s fine, but it’s indeed sub-optimal when
>> selecting the red comment text.  Perhaps the difference is because I set
>> up a dark GTK theme (the toolbar has a dark background, for example).
>
> The behavior you have on your system isn't the Emacs default: we don't
> invert colors to display the region, we only specify a different
> background color (see the default definition of the 'region' face).

I’m used “emacs -Q” and I’m on Guix where we don’t patch Emacs to have
different defaults.  I also have nothing in my .Xdefaults or .Xresources
that should affect Emacs.

-- 
Ricardo