Re: [PATCH] * etc/themes/wombat-theme.el: Don't set foreground on region

[Mitchel Humpherys]

On Sun, Feb 28 2016 at 06:53:45 AM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Setting a foreground color on the `region' face is slightly
>> > annoying.
>> > This is subjective, of course, but the consensus among other
>> > themes and around the web is to *not* set a foreground color
>> > on the region face.
>>
>> Any objections to this?  I should have mentioned that the reason
>> it's slightly annoying is because setting a foreground color hides
>> existing syntax highlighting within the region text.
>
> A particular theme can do anything its authors and users want,
> of course.  But wrt the general question of whether region (aka
> selection) highlighting should override other highlighting, see
> Emacs bug #15899.
>
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15899
>
> IMO, selection highlighting should, at least by default, visibly
> cover the entire selection.  Otherwise, it is not always clear
> what the region limits are.

Just to be clear, when I said "syntax highlighting" I meant it in the
general sense of colors applied to the *foreground* of code in order to
highlight the syntax of the language.  I believe you're referring to
background highlighting, which shouldn't be affected by this patch.

-- 
Mitch