From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "yinglcs@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to get consistent emacs background color Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <54bd924d-0606-48bd-95cf-c38167245212@g61g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223948436 14058 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2008 01:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:40:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 03:41:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KpYuj-0000ox-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpYtf-0006ad-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g61g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.57.130.95 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223946627 29292 127.0.0.1 (14 Oct 2008 01:10:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:10:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g61g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.57.130.95; posting-account=21CglQoAAACb_-hBxAVv13ZLfdnJRfLv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092510 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.3, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163405 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:58747 Archived-At: Hi, I have the following line in my .emacs: (set-background-color "ivory2") (set-foreground-color "black") initially , the color of emacs is correct. But when I spawn a new emacs window (C-x 5 2). the background of that emacs is white. Can you please tell me how can I fix that? Thank yoy.