Re: emacs -nw -f shell prompt way too blue

[bojohan@helm.dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:

> Gentlemen, I get a pleasing blue prompt when I do
> $ emacs --no-site-file -q -f shell
> however, with
> $ emacs --no-site-file -q -f shell -nw
> we're talking way too dark blue.  To dark to be readable here on my
> terminal where I've slightly turned the juice down 'to save the bulb',
> but anyway, can't you pick a color as bright as the one when one
> doesn't use -nw?

Emacs doesn't know that your terminal has a dark background if you
don't tell it.

Try
emacs --no-site-file -q --eval "(setq frame-background-mode 'dark)" -f shell -nw

You have a line to that effect in your .emacs.

/Johan