Re: syntax highlighting, emacs ([PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2))

Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-07T22:11:30Z

On Oct 8 2007 00:18, Oleg Verych wrote:
>
>Kind of funny thing with it. One for shell in `mcedit` is much nicer, but
>`emacs` is more powerful as editor(R). But both have highlighting
>problems with non trivial scripts (quoiting, data here, etc). I don't
>know if it will ever be fixed :).

No, it will never get fixed. I use two editors on a day-to-day basis,
and that is mcedit and joe. No fixed rule on which to use. It goes as
far that I have the same syntax highlighting (almost) on both.
Because one thing in one editor is cumbersome in the other.
Perhaps if there was one editor with the hotkeys of *both* (yes,
means duplicates), maybe then I'd be satisfied.

>Emacs have black background by default. I changed foreground to green,
>and it is much nicer for long runs. Blue (or any bright) background
>isn't comfortable, i think.

Actually, blue is perceived as one of the darkest colors by the human
eye. There is a reason that the RGB -> grayscale transformation uses
the following weighting: r=76 g=154 b=26.