Mario Castelán Castro wrote: | On 29/08/17 08:04, Richard Banach wrote: | | > b) the customization only took effect in emacs running in its own | > window ... in emacs -nw started in an xterm, the colours are | > different (for the same latex file), the customizations have no effect, | > and the keyword colour mapping (for latex keywords) is coming from some | > other place, which i'd like to be able to edit if possible | | There ought to be a better way to customize the colors for LaTeX mode, | but the only thing I can suggest is to move point to the text whose | color you want to customize and then do M-x “customize-face”. If you | press ENTER without writing anything in the minibuffer, it will | customize the face at point. | | > | I have never seen "pale pastel" colors by default. What version of Emacs | > | do you use? | > | > it says | > | > GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.13) | > of 2017-03-03 on c1bm.rdu2.centos.org | | Thanks you. I use Emacs 24.5 as shipped in Debian 9. I have attached a | screenshot of “emacs -q” (because otherwise I have custom colors). Does | it look like this to you as well? | | ----- | Maybe it is just that your terminal emulator is mapping the 8 color | palette to pastel colors, as another user said. | | -- | Do not eat animals, respect them as you respect people. | https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+(become+OR+eat)+vegan hi, it's not quite like yours ... i attach two screenshots 1) with proper menu bar ... this is emacs running in its own window with a color scheme it got from somewhere ... pale and cute but less helpful for me 2) with pretend black menu bar ... and ugly underlining ... this is emacs -nw running in an xterm ... as you mentioned, hacking the xterm color scheme might be the way to go, but i haven't tried it yet ... turing up the heat on those primary colors is what i'm aiming for :-) cheers, richard.