Re: Problem with highlit regions on Linux virtual terminal

[Stefan Monnier]

> to mark the function.  Note again the quality of the display (low :-().
> We have uniform pale grey text on a bright blue background, and the sole
> remaining vestige of the font locking is that font-lock-keyword-face
> (and one or two others) are in bold white rather than pale grey.

Yes, the fact that we do not merge the highlight face with the
underlying face specified in text-properties is a misfeature.
Please add it to the bugtracker.


        Stefan


PS: Another, related but different problem is merging the `mouse-face'
with the `face' property.