Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline

[Stefan Monnier]

> Could emacs internally figure out the colour settings and determine if
> the contrast between the foreground and background is high enough.
> And if not high enough to change the foreground and background colour.

It could but that would prevent such settings being made on purpose.
AFAICT your current problems are due to Xresource settings, which are
usually things the user sets explicitly, so it would be odd for Emacs to
ignore/override explicit user settings.

> Particularly when user supplies the -q option whilst debugging. 

`-q` is not for debugging: `-Q` is.


        Stefan