From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs color White on Black setup question Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 15:20:48 -0700 Message-ID: <0B40EF04F35A45BCB7F56B827BB0561F@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337034065 13302 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 22:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:21:05 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Xah Lee'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 00:21:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SU3dX-0002V4-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 00:21:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU3dW-0004Yv-GV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU3dR-0004YY-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU3dP-00048B-Fi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:30471) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU3dP-00047w-91 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q4EMKp4R027393 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:52 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4EMKo9b007452 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 14 May 2012 22:20:51 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt113.oracle.com (abhmt113.oracle.com [141.146.116.65]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q4EMKo6c011239; Mon, 14 May 2012 17:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 14 May 2012 15:20:50 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 x-mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Ac0yHlYvETKxsGR2R0WcjfujeugstAAALTVA X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84824 Archived-At: > sometimes, i want the background black. The problem is, you can't > simply set background to black, you'll also need to change a bunch of > default text colors. > > is there a simple way to set background to black and other colors > automatically set to readable? I'm no expert on this but you might try either of these (they should do the same thing): * Customize face `default', setting `Inverse-video' to ON. * `M-x set-face-inverse-video-p RET default RET t RET'