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bug#6693: 24.0.50; font-lock-(builtin|doc) faces are *way* too close
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#6693: 24.0.50; font-lock-(builtin|doc) faces are *way* too close |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:05:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I guess it would be this one, since that is what emacs -Q gives on my
> machine, I
> assume (light background, many colors):
>
> (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light))
> (:foreground "MediumOrchid4"))
>
> As I said, previously the value was "Orchid", and that was better.
The commit message for the change from Orchid to MediumOrchid4 is:
=== modified file 'lisp/ChangeLog'
*** lisp/ChangeLog 2009-08-01 16:21:45 +0000
--- lisp/ChangeLog 2009-08-02 14:20:02 +0000
***************
*** 1,3 ****
--- 1,9 ----
+ 2009-08-02 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+ * font-lock.el (font-lock-string-face, font-lock-builtin-face)
+ (font-lock-variable-name-face, font-lock-constant-face): Darken
+ the colors for light backgrounds.
+
So presumably some people had difficulty reading Orchid on light
backgrounds?
Perhaps a different colour could be used in your use case that would
still be legible, but separate the doc string from the keywords. Do you
have a suggestion?
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