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24.0.50; font-lock-(builtin|doc) faces are *way* too close

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 6693 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 24.0.50; font-lock-(builtin|doc) faces are *way* too close
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:05:41 +0200

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> I guess it would be this one, since that is what emacs -Q gives on my machine, I
> assume (light background, many colors):
>
> (((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light)) 
>   (:foreground "MediumOrchid4"))
>
> As I said, previously the value was "Orchid", and that was better.

The commit message for the change from Orchid to MediumOrchid4 is:

=== modified file 'lisp/ChangeLog'
*** lisp/ChangeLog	2009-08-01 16:21:45 +0000
--- lisp/ChangeLog	2009-08-02 14:20:02 +0000
***************
*** 1,3 ****
--- 1,9 ----
+ 2009-08-02  Chong Yidong  <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
+ 
+ 	* font-lock.el (font-lock-string-face, font-lock-builtin-face)
+ 	(font-lock-variable-name-face, font-lock-constant-face): Darken
+ 	the colors for light backgrounds.
+ 

So presumably some people had difficulty reading Orchid on light
backgrounds?

Perhaps a different colour could be used in your use case that would
still be legible, but separate the doc string from the keywords.  Do you
have a suggestion?

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