Re: message-header-xheader unused, maybe

[Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com>]

  I use light.  But I tried the white-on-black Emacs today and
  realized I can do nothing in the message header unless I turn
  the brightness of the display up to practically the maximum.  It
  is similar also in the article buffer.  (It might be because I
  usually dim the display too much, though.)  OTOH, emacs-w3m does
  not cause me inconvenience.

I have long used white text on black background, and used to use green
text on black background to avoid fuzz from convergence issues.
I have in .Xresources:

*Background:	black
*Foreground:	white

In a X11 emacs, the colors have not been too annoying, but they are
still darker than I would like.  With emacs running in an xterm, I find
the colors, particularly for quoted text in article display, to be very
dark, to the point where I turn off font-lock-mode to be able to read.

Part of the issue may be the values reported by tty-color-alist in
xterm (NetBSD, XFree86).

(("black" 0 0 0 0)
 ("red" 1 65535 0 0)
 ("green" 2 0 65535 0)
 ("yellow" 3 65535 65535 0)
 ("blue" 4 0 0 65535)
 ("magenta" 5 65535 0 65535)
 ("cyan" 6 0 65535 65535)
 ("white" 7 65535 65535 65535))

In my view the right colors would have high luminances and therefore not
be that saturated.  I mean a light blue like c0c0ff rather than 0000ff.

I don't know that the right fix is.  Perhaps not using color should be
chosen if the palette is inadequate.  Perhaps I should get a spiffier
xterm.