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[Danni Coy via Digitalmars-d]

This times 1000

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:11 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 02:32:28PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev via
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The cardinal rule of color selection: NEVER only set the foreground
> color or the background color alone. ALWAYS set both, otherwise you will
> get invisible text (or barely-visible text, like yellow on white) on
> somebody's terminal, and they will be very, very angry.
>
>
> T
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