On 25/01/09 18:54, Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 08:08:10 PST bill lam wrote:
>> After reading white-on-black for several hours, I found it is OK
>> except the "blue on black" combination. Since blue is dark blue
>> #0000ff on xterm. It is really hard to read. I have to use Xresource
>> to change color4 (blue) to #00aaff (lighter). Does anyone also find it
>> hard to read "blue on black" and what is the workaround?
>
> Me too. That's why I finally broke with habits I formed way back in the
> 80's and reconfigured all my terminal emulators to use white
> backgrounds. To avoid glare, however, I do have the brightness turned
> way down.
>
> When working with text, being able to distinguish individual letters and
> punctuation marks is usually more important than being able to
> distinguish colors. Programmers need fonts that have clearly different
> shapes for the number one versus lower case L, for zero versus capital
> O, for commas versus periods, and for curly braces versus rounded
> parentheses
>
> I do use syntax coloring. but only sparingly. For example, I like to
> make comments a light to medium gray, so uncommented text stands out
> more. I also like using green for string literals, as an easy way to
> catch a missing close quote. And I like red text for error messages.
> But I find most other keyword and type coloring to be nothing more than
> visual noise.
Personally I don't deviate much from "default" gui highlights in my
mersonal colorscheme, but one exception is the Error highlight, where
(in the GUI) I found white-on-red hard to read. The easy fix was to make
it black-on-red.
>
> I use mutt (and vim!) for email, and I like to use contrasting
> colors for different quote levels. Here it isn't important to be
> able to see exactly what shade of blue is being used, only that
> it's different from the magenta or green that being used for an
> adjacent level.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
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