Re: More visible mini-buffer prompt face

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> > I agree that is hard to distinguish from ordinary black-on-white text.
> > The blue needs to be more different from black.
> >
> > What would you think of using `medium blue'?
>
> If the point is to make it easier to distinguish the prompt itself from the
> text the user enters, this is better, IMO. But if the point was to
> make the prompt
> more visible when the user is looking somewhere else in the frame, I'd say
> that it doesn't make much difference in getting his attention.

Yes, that is right. I was thinking of the second scenario here (ie the 
user is looking somewhere else). I sent a suggestion as a patch to the 
list in this message:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-02/msg01071.html

This also includes a bug fix for the customize part of the 
initialization of minibuffer-prompt-properties.