Merged from miles@gnu.org--gnu-2005 (patch 17-26, 107-116)

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / faces.el

diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
index cc6b5d0f8dfb9d138f7d37bef44184c0a81419e9..936e0a132a4dd48da1a59cc1d6651ce8f9cae613 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/faces.el
+++ b/lisp/faces.el
@@ -1910,6 +1910,9 @@ 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."
@@ -2077,6 +2080,8 @@ 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."