Re: 23.0.50; Middle w in of permissions in dired-mode is red and bold: dired-warning

[Chong Yidong]

Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> When testing Emacs 22 with `emacs -Q', I see that dired buffers are
> almost unusable by default.  The red bold face for write permissions
> is very distracting that prevents focusing on other parts of the dired
> buffer.  I'm afraid Emacs users will hate us for this if we release
> Emacs 22.2 with this annoyance.

I haven't been paying attention here, so sorry if this has been
discussed elsewhere in the thread.

As far as I can tell, the face is meant to be distracting.  It's
supposed to warn when files are writable by other users.  Why would
this feature make Emacs users hate us?

If you really really dislike (hate?) the warning face, one thing we
could try is to make it red and non-bold on terminals that support
colors.  If that's an acceptable compromise, then we can safely go
ahead and make that change.