From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54118 invoked by alias); 7 Mar 2019 06:02:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 54105 invoked by uid 89); 7 Mar 2019 06:02:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HX-Envelope-From:sk:brobeck, brightness, personal X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:02:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE505601B; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 01:02:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ySl8WfqZazCL; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 01:02:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2EB56019; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 01:02:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 87D5F86B57; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 10:02:24 +0400 (+04) Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 06:02:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI Message-ID: <20190307060224.GA26408@adacore.com> References: <20181128001435.12703-1-tom@tromey.com> <83k1kxfzwo.fsf@gnu.org> <8736rja4i8.fsf@tromey.com> <83r2brhw8k.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8cmh1wg.fsf@tromey.com> <83va12gz8j.fsf@gnu.org> <87mumeb935.fsf@tromey.com> <83d0n8eyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0n6adk2.fsf@tromey.com> <83imwyee29.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83imwyee29.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00138.txt.bz2 > > Eli> . The default foreground color used for addresses, blue, is too dark > > Eli> when the terminal's background is black. Maybe we should change to > > Eli> magenta, which should look OK on both dark and light backgrounds. > > > > For me magenta is even darker. Setting the intensity to bold might be > > more acceptable? > > Still too dark. I guess we will need to leave this to personal > customizations. My idea was to mimick what vim does: It actually has two sets of settings, one for dark terminals, and one for bright ones. Each set uses similar colors by default, but adapted for the brightness of the terminal. For more info, check out vim's help for "set background=[dark|light]". -- Joel