avy-mode and ace-jump fonts much too difficult to see

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avy-mode and ace-jump fonts much too difficult to see

impaktor opened this issue 9 years ago · 7 comments

The current colour-scheme is anything but helpful when using ace-jump mode.

Consider this Python snippet, where I want to navigate to the False on the second line.

So activate ace-jump:

See how the "F" is replaced with a completly different character? Me neither.

We might all like discrete fonts and low constrast colour-schemes, like the line numbers, but sometimes we need to see things that "pop" at us, especially when it's stuff that are only (meant to be) shown for a few seconds.

I think the most sane thing would be to set a fixed background colour and a contrasting foreground colour, it's the best way to make it visible also in various syntax highlighting / font lock schemes.

I have not looked further into which zenburn colours might be useful for this, but gray background is not what I would suggest here, but perhaps rather the inverse.

To demonstrate, this is how clear it can be in other colourschemes:

(from https://github.com/abo-abo/avy)

Answer 1 · 2016-03-20T08:17:38.000Z

As mentioned before - I'm fine with something like this as long as it's conditional.

Answer 2 · 2016-03-27T12:22:57.000Z

@impaktor @manuel-uberti Btw, I failed to mention this before - you're probably not setting avy-background to t (like I do). I'm guessing the conditional check should be exactly this - stronger backgrounds make sense only when you're not using avy-background (which is dimming everything else).

Answer 3 · 2016-03-27T12:23:44.000Z

This is how avy looks for me.

Answer 4 · 2016-03-27T12:35:04.000Z

Anyways, it's easy to change those in personal configs, so I'll close this ticket.

Answer 5 · 2016-03-27T16:21:26.000Z

I'm fine with something like this as long as it's conditional.

I currently don't have the time to aquire the needed skills to do that, but I already run my own "blend" of zenburn, but maybe in the future I'll have another stab at migrating my changes upstream.

Regarding avy-background. When I used ace-jump I did like the gray out stuff, mostly because it looked neat. Trying it without, is not as neat or pretty, but for me much more functional, as I used to easily get lost when the gray-out during search. To each his own.

Answer 6 · 2016-03-27T18:54:18.000Z

Thanks for the hint, @bbatsov

Answer 7 · 2018-09-11T07:38:54.000Z

(use-package avy :ensure t
  :commands (avy-goto-char)
  :config
  (setq avy-background t)
  :custom-face
  (avy-lead-face ((t(:weight bold))))
  (avy-lead-face-0 ((t(:weight bold))))
  )