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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2005-02-19 13:27:09 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2005-02-19 13:27:09 +0000
commit0e0d5683812fe9d4b77355291e9efd8ed8873d64 (patch)
treea58b2ddac1c30f3ce9dd03c536e116ad7d00c2ac /lisp/faces.el
parent270a576a4222c76b9483a322769fc4d3d2e29a82 (diff)
downloademacs-0e0d5683812fe9d4b77355291e9efd8ed8873d64.tar.gz
(escape-glyph, minibuffer-prompt, button): Add commentary for
the reasons we use "type pc" in these faces.
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diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
index 1a868b4537c..e448ab4f13d 100644
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@@ -1880,6 +1880,9 @@ created."
(defface minibuffer-prompt '((((background dark)) :foreground "cyan")
+ ;; Don't use blue because many users of
+ ;; the MS-DOS port customize their
+ ;; foreground color to be blue.
(((type pc)) :foreground "magenta")
(t :foreground "dark blue"))
"Face for minibuffer prompts."
@@ -2047,6 +2050,8 @@ Note: Other faces cannot inherit from the cursor face."
:group 'basic-faces)
(defface escape-glyph '((((background dark)) :foreground "cyan")
+ ;; See the comment in minibuffer-prompt for
+ ;; the reason not to use blue on MS-DOS.
(((type pc)) :foreground "magenta")
(t :foreground "blue"))
"Face for characters displayed as ^-sequences or \-sequences."