Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals

[Nick Roberts]

 >   > This is not a bug, but a deliberate feature.  There's a new face named
 >   > font-lock-comment-delimiter-face.
 > 
 > This feature was introduced because on the Linux console the comment
 > face was hard to read (red on black).

That's not my recollection.  Indeed red is very easy to see on black when
there is sufficient brightness.  ISTR that RMS added it to minimise power
consumption on laptops.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob