Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:07:43 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > > been a source of annoyance over the years.  Introducing another
> > > such situation should, in my view, be avoided as far as possible.
> > 
> > That's a good point.  Basically, what you're saying is that instead
> > of :distant-foreground we could have a :foreground that can be of
> > the form (NORMAL-FOREGROUND . ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND), where
> > ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND is used when NORMAL-FOREGROUND would lead to a
> > lack of contrast.
> 
> Please don't.  That too would break code that expects :foreground to
> be as it is now.

Why do you assume that the previous form will not be accepted?  Of
course, it will be.