bug#2663: Background color in Emacs.app

bug#2663: Background color in Emacs.app

[Gilbert Harman]

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In Emacs.app, change the background color from white to black and make
appropriate changes in the text and other colors in .emacs.  Then remove
those changes from .emacs and restart.  The changed colors continue to
appear.

"GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-03-13 on phi-qp617070u2s.Princeton.EDU"

This has been true in all Emacs.app versions in 23, as far as I can tell.

In Carbon Emacs, running Emacs 22 and earlier versions, the display reverts
to the standard black on white.

 Gil harmaan

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bug#2663: Background color in Emacs.app

[David Engster]

Gilbert Harman <harman@princeton.edu> writes:
> In Emacs.app, change the background color from white to black and make
> appropriate changes in the text and other colors in .emacs.  Then remove
> those changes from .emacs and restart.  The changed colors continue to
> appear.

I once had the same problem. Check if you have a file

~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist

That file contained some of the settings from my .emacs, including the
background color, so that deleting if from .emacs didn't have the
desired effect. I'm not sure when and why that file was written. It is
mentioned here

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mac-Environment-Variables.html

as a means to save Xresources.

Regards,
David

Re: bug#2663: Background color in Emacs.app

[Gil]

On Mar 16, 8:00 am, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de> wrote:
> Gilbert Harman <har...@princeton.edu> writes:
> > In Emacs.app, change the background color from white to black and make
> > appropriate changes in the text and other colors in .emacs.  Then remove
> > those changes from .emacs and restart.  The changed colors continue to
> > appear.
>
> I once had the same problem. Check if you have a file
>
> ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist
>
> That file contained some of the settings from my .emacs, including the
> background color, so that deleting if from .emacs didn't have the
> desired effect. I'm not sure when and why that file was written. It is
> mentioned here
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mac-Environm...
>
> as a means to save Xresources.
>
> Regards,
> David

That was it!  Thanks,

 Gil

Re: bug#2663: Background color in Emacs.app

[Gil]

On Mar 16, 8:00 am, David Engster <d...@randomsample.de> wrote:
> Gilbert Harman <har...@princeton.edu> writes:
> > In Emacs.app, change the background color from white to black and make
> > appropriate changes in the text and other colors in .emacs.  Then remove
> > those changes from .emacs and restart.  The changed colors continue to
> > appear.
>
> I once had the same problem. Check if you have a file
>
> ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist
>
> That file contained some of the settings from my .emacs, including the
> background color, so that deleting if from .emacs didn't have the
> desired effect. I'm not sure when and why that file was written. It is
> mentioned here
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mac-Environm...
>
> as a means to save Xresources.
>
> Regards,
> David

Thanks, that solved the problem.

 Gil

bug#2663: marked as done (Background color in Emacs.app)

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In Emacs.app, change the background color from white to black and make
appropriate changes in the text and other colors in .emacs.  Then remove
those changes from .emacs and restart.  The changed colors continue to
appear.

"GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.6.0, NS apple-appkit-949.43)
 of 2009-03-13 on phi-qp617070u2s.Princeton.EDU"

This has been true in all Emacs.app versions in 23, as far as I can tell.

In Carbon Emacs, running Emacs 22 and earlier versions, the display reverts
to the standard black on white.

 Gil harmaan

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From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>
To: 2663-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: 
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 23:09:14 +0700
Message-ID: <C7C70D92-F21A-443A-9990-A8ED65AF611B@gmail.com>

Closing, fixed by changes 2009-03-14 and thereabouts to remove NS  
defaults usage.