Subject: Re: bug#11032: 24.0.94; illegible mode-line text (in dark themes?)

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:38:13 +0800

Richard Copley <[email-masked]> writes:

> Some faces are illegible if used on the mode-line when the default
> background is dark but the mode line background is light. (Or at
> least, this can happen in a dark theme.)
>
> For example (from emacs -Q):
>
> Set the theme to "tsdh-dark".
> M-x compile RET M-n dir RET # "dir" should succeed
> C-x o                       # activate *Compilation*

Thanks for the bug report.  I have defined some new faces for
compilation messages on the mode line, and tweaked the default face
attributes and the built-in themes so that these messages are legible on
the mode-line.