Comment body colourless in eight-colour terminal.

[Nick Roberts]

Trent Buck writes:
 > Using Debian GNU/Linux, in a stock xterm or on the console, run
 > 
 >      TERM=linux emacs -nw -Q -fg black -bg white -f global-font-lock-mode 
 > ~/.emacs
 >      TERM=linux emacs -nw -Q -fg white -bg black -f global-font-lock-mode 
 > ~/.emacs
 > 
 > The comment characters (;) are coloured red, but comment bodies (after ;'s)
 > are the same colour as ordinary text.

This has been done to save battery power on aging Laptops.

 > I contend that a better default would be for the comment bodies to be the
 > same colour as the comment characters.  This is already the case when
 > running under X11 and under Emacs 21.

You're out of luck.  You'll have to customize font-lock-comment-face.  I
think you just need to get it to inherit from font-lock-comment-delimiter-face.

Nick