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Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual termin
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:36:20 +0000 |
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HI, Yidong!
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:10:06PM -0400, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> > You seem to be right that it's suppressing most of the font-locking
> > in the highlighted area. I don't know exactly why it does so
> > (whether this is intentional behavior or an artifact of the
> > implementation)
> See the definition of the `region' face in faces.el. On displays with
> sufficient colors, the face definition sets just :background, leaving
> the remaining face attributes unspecified; those will generally be set
> from the font-lock face.
> On 8-color displays, both :background and :foreground is set. This is
> quite reasonable, because of the paucity of colors on such displays.
I disagree - precisely because of this paucity of colours, it is
unreasonable to override both. Font locking is important. The contrast
between a highlit region and a font locked region (the current setup
excludes a combination of both) is too violent.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/04/05
- Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Miles Bader, 2009/04/05
- Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/04/07
- Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/04/08
- Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/04/08
- Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/04/08
- Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/04/08