syl20bnr/spacemacs — pull request #332 by hunner (2014-12-23 21:42:36+00:00)
Title: Update docs with more information on powerline colors

The powerline color issue is due to the fact that Emacs 24.4 now defaults to using sRGB colorspace on OS X 10.7 and higher, not some "brokeness" with brew's `emacs` build as the previous verbiage seemed to imply; the powerline codebase is still assuming `(setq ns-use-srgb-colorspace nil)` is the default.

This PR adds more information about this so that users may decide whether they want to just set it back to nil, switch to emacs-mac (which has it set to nil anyway), or disable powershell separators. (Turning off srgb colorspace results in washed-out theme colors).

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Side rant:
I don't agree that the recommended fix for this would be to use `emacs-mac-port` as that basically just gives better trackpad support. IMHO trackpad support does not outweigh the frustrations over default meta/super key bindings, no `server-start` support, or the use of the antiquated carbon api, but I left the recommendation as-is in this PR.