Re: terminal emacs configuration take 2

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 12 2021,Tim Visher wrote:


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> IMHO the best way to 'theme' emacs in a terminal is to apply the color
> theme to the terminal emulator and leave emacs alone, save for setting the
> frame-background-mode to light or dark if it's not being detected properly.
> The reason for this is that anything that I want to change about colors for
> emacs I'd really like to have applied for all my terminal applications. Why
> would I settle for nice colors in emacs and then jarring in colors in bash?
>
> Furthermore many of the configuration options you're referring to have no
> analog in terminal emacs. Certainly fonts but also toolbars and frame
> borders and such just aren't configurable in any meaningful way AFAIK. That
> said, again setting the font in your terminal emulator makes emacs _and_
> the rest of your terminal experience nice.

Right, went ahead and changed the MS Terminal fontsize instead of
trying anything in emacs.

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> That said, if you can already detect that you're in a terminal and
> furthermore that you're trying to have a single config that behaves
> differently in CLI vs. GUI then whatever you're configuring can just go
> behind if or when statements in your config file. Just be aware that some
> of it isn't relevant.

Yeah, using (when (window-system) ... to wrap my GUI settings.


Thanks.

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sivaram
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