On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:32:28PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d wrote: > As has been announced, DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in > error messages: > > http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected] > > With 2.075's release near, now would be a good time to decide on a > nice color palette that looks fine on most terminals. So, please vote: > > https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6943 > > Obligatory: > - Yes, not everyone likes colors. You can turn all colors off with a > command-line switch. > - Yes, everyone agrees that having all colors be configurable would be > good. We still need defaults that are going to look OK on most > terminals. > - Yes, no matter what colors we choose, they're going to look bad on > some terminal somewhere. Let's worry about the major platforms' most > common terminals for now.
The cardinal rule of color selection: NEVER only set the foreground color or the background color alone. ALWAYS set both, otherwise you will get invisible text (or barely-visible text, like yellow on white) on somebody's terminal, and they will be very, very angry. T -- Marketing: the art of convincing people to pay for what they didn't need before which you fail to deliver after.
