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Re: [PATCH] prompt: do not double-discriminate detached HEAD

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
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Jul 8, 2013, 13:49 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> +1; I find red on many terminal emulators to be too dark to tell,
> especially in a small font, from black myself.

It's a matter of taste anyway. I hope everyone's not going colorblind from writing too much C89 and Bourne shell ;)

Eduardo R. D'Avila wrote:
> I think color in terminals should be used to highlight and make it easier to see
> textual information, not to replace them. So I would keep the parenthesis.

I largely agree, but there are a few exceptions. Most notably, have you noticed how, in addition to font-locking, scheme-mode replaces lambda with λ?

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  1. prompt: do not double-discriminate detached HEADRamkumar Ramachandra, Jul 7, 2013
  2. John SzakmeisterJul 7, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 7, 2013
  4. Kyle McKayJul 7, 2013
  5. Ramkumar RamachandraJul 8, 2013
  6. Eduardo R. D'AvilaJul 8, 2013

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