Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[David Engster]

Chong Yidong writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>
> What Drew is worrying about, I think, is that third-party code, or old
> versions of Emacs, will barf when they come across the new :foreground
> form in user customizations or themes.

I'm not too fond of that for the same reason.

I'm wondering: We already can set different face attributes depending on
DISPLAY's 'background' property, which can be 'light' or 'dark'. Say the
user is working with a 'dark' background by default, but we now detect
that one of the font-lock faces has not enough contrast when highlighted
by the region: why not simply switch to the face that is defined for
'light' background instead?

-David