Re: Reopen bug 535: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal

[Chong Yidong]

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.