> Good improvement, but there is no reason to have two different faces > with different colors for the same purpose - highlighting text areas > under the mouse pointer. > > I believe there is, because the mode line has a different background face. > I believe that the regular highlight face might be hard to see against > the mode line background.
It is foreground/background color combination that can make text hard to read. Since both foreground and background colors are displayed with `highlight' face on the mode line, there should be no problem to see text highlighted under the mouse pointer on the mode line. Using completely different color for the same action is too confusing. If there is not enough contrast between adjacent highlighted and active/inactive mode line areas, then the color of mode-line-highlight could be adjusted to a darker color. For example, replacing "DarkSeaGreen2" used in `highlight' face with "DarkSeaGreen3" for `mode-line-highlight' face on light backgrounds looks very good and makes highlighting of the mode line very easy to notice, and at the same time preserves its visual association with usual highlighting under the mouse pointer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel