Re: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[Jan Djärv]

Hello.

12 jan 2014 kl. 14:07 skrev David Engster <address@hidden>:

> A consistent color theme will choose the region's background color in a
> way that the font-lock colors are always visible in the first place.

That is impossible in principle.  Any mode (or elisp code) can define a new 
face with new colors that didn't even exist when the theme was designed.  
Distant-foreground gives theme designers a way to cope with this, even if no 
theme has done so yet.  And in a way that is consistent with other theme 
colors.  Dark/light just don't do that.  EOD.

        Jan D.