Re: font-lock-comment-face

[Miles Bader]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> > I tried a bunch, and the one I think looks the nicest, but is still
> > `reddish' (and is converted to red by the tty color reduction code),
> > is "chocolate1".
> 
> Perhaps that's true for 8-color terminals, or maybe you have
> non-default colors in tty-defined-color-alist.  On 16-color terminals
> (which includes at least MS-DOS and w32 ports), all chocolate colors
> are reduced to brown, which is identical to the color used for
> strings.
> 
> However, if most of the tty's only support 8 colors, I think it would
> be okay to make such a change anyhow.

A tty-specific mapping to `red' could be used anyway, to make sure
16-color terminals do the right thing.

-Miles