This times 1000 On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:11 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@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 > > -- > Marketing: the art of convincing people to pay for what they didn't need > before which you fail to deliver after. >