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Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors
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Jari Aalto |
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Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors |
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Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:12:34 +0200 |
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* Mon 2007-03-26 Miles Bader <miles AT gnu.org> INBOX
> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto AT cante.net> writes:
>
>> The default color selected is still a problem for completely black
>> background. Would there be better alternative to currently used "cyan"?
>
> Cyan was carefully chosen for use on a black background, and on all the
> displays I have, it looks great -- it's close enough in brightness to
> the default text color (white) that while it clearly stands out, it
> doesn't stand out "too much" (which would make it distracting).
>
> That is on a display that shows colors directly (X11).
>
> TTY displays are somewhat more tricky. Unfortunately there is some
> variance in the way various terminal emulators render colors (e.g., rxvt
> and xterm both use "xterm" as a terminal type, but use different
> brightness for some colors). However as far as I've tested, cyan looks
> as good as anything on typical terminal emulators. There just aren't
> many choices on a typical terminal (I tried "green", it is actually less
> visible than cyan on my display using gnome-terminal in xterm/rxvt/etc
> emulation modes).
Have a look at these:
1) On Windows, terminal Putty, which is very popular free SSH terminal.
http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/bug/emacs/m-x-shell-color--win32-putty.jpg
2) On windows, displaying a rxvt terminal back to the Cygwin X11 server
from a Unix host using "-bg black -fg snow"
http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/bug/emacs/m-x-shell-color--rxvt-cygwin-X11.jpg
What if plain 'bold was used instead of cyan?
Jari
- RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Jari Aalto, 2007/03/25
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Miles Bader, 2007/03/25
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Jari Aalto, 2007/03/25
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Romain Francoise, 2007/03/26
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Miles Bader, 2007/03/26
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs, 2007/03/26
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Miles Bader, 2007/03/26
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Jari Aalto+mail.emacs, 2007/03/26
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, Miles Bader, 2007/03/26
- Re: RFC: comint.el - comint-highlight-prompt and unreadable colors, tomas, 2007/03/26