Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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.

Well, it's kind of a jump, but IIRC it's not completely off-the-mark:
Richard complained that the font-lock-comment-face was unreadable on his
screen, and the reason was partly that he kept the brightness of his
screen at minimum to maximize battery autonomy.


        Stefan