From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Colors and Redhat (!crystal ball) Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:52:18 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84ade0uif1.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052249647 4524 80.91.224.249 (6 May 2003 19:34:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 19:34:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 06 21:34:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19D8BR-00014F-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 21:33:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19D8A0-0000nk-0C for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2003 15:31:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e9a2.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e9a2.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.233.162) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052249344 17668871 217.225.233.162 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fiFH8seNDO+Ccvz0YX/vNBQVWm8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112859 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9352 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9352 "William D. Colburn (aka Schlake)" writes: > To see the first indication something is wrong, try the command: > emacs -nw -q --no-site-file > > I am used to, and expecting, a white screen with black text, except for > the mode bar at the bottom which will be a black background with white > text. However: > 21.2 on redhat will have the word "*scratch*" in a blue bar. Ah. Are you running Emacs under X11 in xterm or konsole or gnome-terminal or somesuch program? You can configure these programs (well, xterm at least) to display bold text not just bold, but also in some color. For example, I'm guessing that the following command also shows a bold blue word: echo `tput smso` isitblue `tput rmso` Hm. smso and rmso appear to be the wrong names -- they produce inverted video in my konsole. Anyone out there know how to produce bold text? So Emacs is just telling the terminal to print bold, and it's not Emacs' fault that the Redhat terminal does something special with it... -- file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature)