From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Kauffman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Changing the Background and foreground colors in Emacs Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: <1158427747.11397.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158427773 28903 80.91.229.2 (16 Sep 2006 17:29:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:29:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 16 19:29:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOdyn-0002FZ-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:29:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOdym-0005a0-GO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOdyZ-0005Y0-Lk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOdyX-0005Vc-L8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOdyX-0005VM-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.168.83.78] (helo=centrmmtao06.cox.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GOe0y-00081c-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:31:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by centrmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060916172908.GQKE17338.centrmmtao06.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([24.252.51.115]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id P5Uo1V00F2V85Bs0000000 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:28:48 -0400 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37413 Archived-At: Hi all, I've been very frustrated trying to locate information on changing the background color in Emacs. Currently it is set to White text on a Black background. I'd much prefer the reverse -- Black text on white background. I've looked through the manuals and there doesn't seem to be anything listed about changing that. I've studied the settings and there doesn't seem to be anything obvious there either. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) although this happened with 5.10 (Breezy). I was not able to get this resolved there either. Thanks In Advance!! Don K.