From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: How do I avoid purple-on-black and yellow-on-white? Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:36:49 -0800 Message-ID: <52EEBA71.3070202@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391380316 2352 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2014 22:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 22:31:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 02 23:32:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5a7-0005PF-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:32:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5a7-0006iX-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:32:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5Zv-0006hS-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:32:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5Zn-00038a-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:31:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::236]:36754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WA5Zn-00036h-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:31:43 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id fa1so6424750pad.27 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:31:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=E7I1HBh+0eIQaavbzV+hMDT8Q7HFsKbB5DiMz9axWGw=; b=TgsfhAoqPM6l7lVIXiALKqMBK/l4/tBLYC3ecv+n1mBqJsd2SW87EXqmT3Oj7yVNFG vghXrSdarugaAU6eSLC2tte1Re/VkdKs9XBoNLJixvETs4o1qgs1qWStkM9BrllKXRgu O78yWPGDDRy8kJhx1mFCJabFvfVWfVKA3FGpSO42PGxzJO6D6Foe3YsNN2m/CkEODjgq cnzQy5KArueXOxnb5hGmSxYukb7kVMJBogdd70yFTDS/RZZvZsCdMbfPRrlMPvRZwhBW 6cD49BwU/8urmnGobSnZORR0T6XJ59T+8cCfDSbPGcEjwIXN4X+Ja3UczcQJmaF6+ETH yJ9w== X-Received: by 10.68.196.195 with SMTP id io3mr34229739pbc.6.1391380301889; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:31:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.10.2] (adsl-99-157-73-68.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net. [99.157.73.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z10sm128315964pas.6.2014.02.02.14.31.40 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:31:41 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130922 Icedove/17.0.9 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169348 Archived-At: I needed to use emacs in a terminal window that was in reverse mode -- background black. I was completely unable to read any of the prompts without highlighting the text because the prompts are all purple. Somehow, those two combinations need to be prevented. Completely. Entirely. Never allowed to happen at all. It should not be up to a hapless user to figure out how to configure coloration. It's too hard. Thanks you! :)