Re: incomplete comment colorization in terminals

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > >> > 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.

Exactly, but still, the problem was exclusively with a dark background,
there was no complaint whatsoever about the light background case.
There's no reason to have this behavior for the 8 color light background
case.  So, can we please restore it?