On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 20:19:14 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
I would argue pretty strongly that this should be toned down as much as possible.
From the perspective of a personal preference, or an objective analysis? It sounds like the former but isn't worded as one.
All example schemes in the PR so far don't seem to add any real readability value overall.
Readability and aesthetics are distinct goals!
Using a uniform dark gray background color for code could then solve two issues: visually separating text from code and avoiding the problem with differently configured default colors in the terminal.
Fairly sure painting parts of a line with a dark gray background is not going to look great on an otherwise dark-on-light terminal. The terminal excerpt blocks on dlang.org look kind of jarring already: http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#library
