Comment 8 for bug 709214

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:02 AM, mere user <email address hidden>wrote:

> version 1020 doesn't have the strange summary coloring. what do you
> guys use for message, reply and summary coloring?
>
> For summary, I use vm-summary-faces.el, which Uday brought into core last
> August. It was (I think) originally part of rfaddons.
>

   For message composition, I don't do anytihing specific. Quoted text is
formatted with the font-lock-comment-face. The To: and Subject: headers are
also coloured.

   Note that Uday is working on moving from mail-mode to message-mode for
message composition/editing. I beleive this has font-lock support already.

   The core VM does not have any faces for message presentation. I don't do
any colourising of message presentation at present. The u-vm-color.el
package does do this, but also summary font locking, which I suspect mayl
conflict with vm-summary-faces.

   When I get time, I will look at u-vm-color.el and see if we can extract
the presentation font-locking into a vm-presentation-faces.el (or whatever)
that only includes font-locking for the presentation buffer. This would
avoid any potential conflict/confusion with using u-vm-color and
vm-summary-faces.

   In the meantime, you can probably get consistent results by customizing
the faces used by u-vm-color and vm-summary-faces.

Tim

P.S. Note that I got Uday to revert the default highlight face from being
reverse video to just being bold. This may well improve the odd results you
observed with the previous commit.