Re: BIKESHED: completion faces

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05.11.2019 20:36, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> I tried the "white smoke" background for "common" but didn't like it
> because it's too discrete, barely noticeable on my screen.

You could experiment with other subtle colors, it was just my 
suggestion. But a foreground color might be a better choice, yes.

> BTW, what do "typical" other systems use as highlight for the
> common part?  Is there enough agreement there that it's worth trying to
> pay attention to it (kinda like the "blue" for hyperlink convention)?

IMHO we shouldn't give too much weight to those since they use a 
different UI anyway, but:

- VS Code uses a blue foreground (where the default is white). And the 
background is darkish grey. An odd combination, IMO.

- IntelliJ IDEA uses pink foreground instead of black: 
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2019.2/codeCompletionSecondClass1.png

- Atom uses bold.

- Vim doesn't highlight matching characters at all.