RE: Darkening font-lock colors

[Drew Adams]

> > Once you all have fought it out and decided how the default 
> > faces should be changed, and you've made the final changes,
> > please add a simple table, description, or instructions
> > (e.g. in NEWS), to let users know what the defaults
> > were in Emacs 22.
> >
> > That way, any user who wants to go back to one of those 
> > colors will know how to customize the face to do so. Thx.
> > Not a problem for those of us who use multiple
> > versions, but some users might not know how to find out 
> > what that color was that they liked so much. ;-)
> 
> The right solution, of course, is to add a color theming 
> support to Emacs with an easy way to switch themes and to
> create the `emacs-23.1' color theme.

No, that's orthogonal - might be good or bad, but not the solution for this.

A user might well like the new colors in general but prefer one of the old
colors. But what was it? This is not about choosing between two themes (neither
of which might be appropriate).

Please let's not complicate the issue (now it becomes a discussion about
including theme code...). Just publish the old colors and the corresponding new
ones. If you do that, it really doesn't matter much what colors you use.

It is important to list changes in any default values/behavior at each release,
stating clearly what the old was and the new is in each case. That is normal
behavior.