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Re: Comment body colourless in eight-colour terminal.


From: Trent Buck
Subject: Re: Comment body colourless in eight-colour terminal.
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:45:36 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> Trent Buck writes:
>  > Using Debian GNU/Linux, in a stock xterm or on the console, run
>  > 
>  >    TERM=linux emacs -nw -Q -fg black -bg white -f global-font-lock-mode 
> ~/.emacs
>  >    TERM=linux emacs -nw -Q -fg white -bg black -f global-font-lock-mode 
> ~/.emacs
>  > 
>  > The comment characters (;) are coloured red, but comment bodies (after ;'s)
>  > are the same colour as ordinary text.
>
> This has been done to save battery power on aging Laptops.

Are there a lot of people using aging laptops?  Could these people leave font
lock off (it is off by default) or set font-lock-comment-face's definition to
nil?

>  > I contend that a better default would be for the comment bodies to be the
>  > same colour as the comment characters.  This is already the case when
>  > running under X11 and under Emacs 21.
>
> You're out of luck.  You'll have to customize font-lock-comment-face.  I
> think you just need to get it to inherit from 
> font-lock-comment-delimiter-face.

Actually, font-lock-comment-delimiter-face inherits from
font-lock-comment-face, so that would create a circular inheritance.  Currently
I am simply face-spec-set to set the entire face.

-- 
Trent Buck, Student Errant




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