Re: Fontification of citations in mail-Mode

[David Hansen]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:31:07 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I'm guessing that you use a standard terminal that supports 8 colors.
>     If so, look here:
>
>     >     (((class color) (min-colors 8) (background light))
>     >      (:foreground "red"))
>
> With just 8 colors, I doubt there is a better alternative.
> What are the standard 8 colors?

black red green yellow blue magenta cyan white

> I dislike red for real comments, too; it is too hard to read.

Note that you can set the XResources XTerm*color0 to
XTerm*color15 (8-15 are the bold versions).  And the Linux
console seems to have far more eye friendly colors than the
default xterm colors.

David