Let's paint those bikesheds^Werror messages!

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 27.06.2017 um 16:32 schrieb Vladimir Panteleev:
> As has been announced, DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in
> error messages:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/of9oao$230j$1@digitalmars.com
>
> With 2.075's release near, now would be a good time to decide on a nice
> color palette that looks fine on most terminals. So, please vote:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6943
>
> Obligatory:
> - Yes, not everyone likes colors. You can turn all colors off with a
> command-line switch.
> - Yes, everyone agrees that having all colors be configurable would be
> good. We still need defaults that are going to look OK on most terminals.
> - Yes, no matter what colors we choose, they're going to look bad on
> some terminal somewhere. Let's worry about the major platforms' most
> common terminals for now.
>

I would argue pretty strongly that this should be toned down as much as 
possible. All example schemes in the PR so far don't seem to add any 
real readability value overall.

Spontaneously I'd suggest something like highlighting just keywords and 
punctuation with a single different color and making the keywords also 
bold. That would give the code snippets some structure, without letting 
them fight for attention with error/warning colors or other code snippets.

Using a uniform dark gray background color for code could then solve two 
issues: visually separating text from code and avoiding the problem with 
differently configured default colors in the terminal.