Re: color customisation and multiple windows

[arildna@gmail.com]

On Apr 14, 1:49 pm, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: aril...@gmail.com
> > Date: 14 Apr 2007 03:25:26 -0700
>
> > A friend spent quite some time on doing a color customization which I
> > am quite happy with (though if anyone has tips for other color schemes
> > that they think would work better, feel free to comment). The problem
> > is that when I create a new window with C-x-5-2, the background color
> > for some reason changes from black to white, making a lot of the text
> > almost unreadable.
>
> This happens because you used incorrect customizations:
>
> > (set-foreground-color "DarkGoldenrod1")
> > (set-background-color "black")
>
> These apply only to the initial frame.  When you create other frames
> with `C-x 5 2', their colors and faces use the default values.  See
> the documentation of these two functions (accessible with `C-h f').
>
> Instead, use something like this:
>
>  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "DarkGoldenrod1"))
>
> and similarly for the background color.
>
> This is explained in the Emacs user manual, in the node named
> "Creating Frames".  I suggest to take a few minutes and read tfhat.

Thanks a million, that worked like a charm.

And I apologise for not having found the node in the manual; it did
indeed explain it quite straightforwardly.