Re: [h-e-w] Re: Emacs 23.0.92 pretest

["Ugly Me" <ugly@frightenstein.com>]

> Chong Yidong wrote:
> > Emacs pretest 23.0.92 is now available; this is the third pretest for
> > what will be the Emacs 23.1 release.  You can download it via FTP, at
> > the following location:
> >
> >   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.92.tar.gz
> >
> > The xdelta against the previous pretest, 23.0.91, is here:
> >
> >   http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-23.0.91-23.0.92.xdelta
> >
> > Pretesters: please send an email to me reporting success or failure on
> > your build platform.  In addition, please report bugs via M-x
> > report-emacs-bugs, or send an email to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.  For
> > questions, please email emacs-devel@gnu.org.
> >
> > Thank you.

Because I don't know if this is a bug or not, I'm sending the message here.
This build opens up TWO processes. One being the main emacs application, and
the other opens in what resembles a DOS screen with nothing but a cursor
that I can't seem to do anything with except move it around the screen.
If I try to close that, both processes terminate.  I don't recall this ever
happening in previous builds.
However, in a previous version I had a colour scheme problem which still
holds true.
For example, the opening line on the title screen: "Welcome to GNU Emacs,
one component of the GNU operating system."

This is in red, which is fine, except for "GNU Emacs" and "GNU" which is in
a bright turquoise shade.  So are the links and the build information.
This makes it VERY difficult to read and I'm wondering how to change the
default colours.  I know it's probably there somewhere but I'm having
trouble finding it.
True, I'm not fluent in Emacs but I still don't mind using beta versions,
and, the colour problem is not limited to this version anyhow, but also of
22.3.1 as well.
Prior to this I never had a problem.

-Sean
msudol0928@rogers.com