Re: emacs -nw font-lock-mode colors non-ideal for rxvt?

[Eli Zaretskii]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 
> Just curious, do emacs -q -nw some_bash_script [thus invoking bash
> shell script mode] then M-x font-lock-mode.  I was using rxvt.
> 
> On a black background terminal:

That's your problem, right there: Emacs assumes that rxvt's background is
light (because that's how rxvt behaves by default), so it uses a wrong color
scheme.  Customize the background-mode frame parameter to `dark', and the
colors should be more readable.

> On a white background, are the yellows too light to read?

Not on my terminal.  Where do you see the yellow color that is too bright?

> Some possibilities: nobody tests -nw much these days

I do it all the time.

> or their
> brightness/contrast dials are different than mine, or more likely, my
> setup is odd-ball, as lynx does similar antics so I have to do
> TERM=vt100 lynx.

It's possible that the X colors that your setup defines for the 16 standard
ANSI colors are not ideal, or perhaps your display's gamma correction needs
some futzing.