From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [REQ]Light/dark toggle for terminal emacs Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:06:01 +0300 Message-ID: <834koeuili.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39558"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 04 09:06:37 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5nu-000AAy-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:06:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44162 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5nt-0006n5-AS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5nY-0006mP-8U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5nX-0002mX-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3026 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kE5nX-0003oQ-2u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2020 03:06:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Steve Greenburg on Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:00:46 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123952 Archived-At: > From: Steve Greenburg > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 20:00:46 +0000 > > I was using emacs -nw in a terminal the other day and noticed that only the tsdh-light theme was able to give me a light background/dark text out of all the themes in etc/themes. This was a freebsd terminal where the default term has limited colors, and tsdh-light was the only theme that didn't check for a minimum of 80 something colors. It wasn't great but it was much more readable, and faster than setting -fg or -bg on the command line. > > I think it would be a good idea to have a menu option in terminal emacs at least to toggle light/dark for easy of editing. My vision is impaired and I work best with light terminals most of the time. Probably the Options menu before Multilingual Environment. Someone said (invert-face 'default) can do this but I don't expect a casual user on bsd or otherwise would know about this. Possibly a command line option like -light or -dark might also work. There's a command-line option -rv, did you try it?