Re: bad default faces now

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Leo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2010-03-22 05:28 +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
>> The default faces were changed after Emacs 23.1, and the result is worse, 
>> IMO.
>>
>> I don't care for myself, since I don't use the default faces, but see the
>> attached screenshot. The faces for the comment, the variable name, and the 
>> doc
>> string are all about the same.
>>
>> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>>  of 2009-07-29 on SOFT-MJASON
>> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
>> configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.4)'
>
> I also hope that 23.2 will not have the colour scheme it has in 23.1.94.
> It makes lisp source code visually very difficult to read, for example.
> May it be possible to invite someone who is good at designing colour
> themes to contribute or learn from other editor such as textmate?

We discussed this back in last autumn:

 http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/address@hidden/12638321.html

I made an elisp file to help testing new colors. It is available here:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/font-lock-color-test.el

I think the idea of inviting someone to create new suggestions for
colors is good. Could we please then add them to the test file above
so people can test?