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From: notbob@bb.nothome.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: status line color
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:43:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wk2sxpd.fsf@bb.nothome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: afa50807-ec8b-435d-9c7d-7c35afe03929@r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com

Bettina Kraus <bettinakraus1@gmx.de> writes:


> in my fresh Linux installation, the status line of Emacs
> (the line which shows the current line number etc.)

Emacs calls this the mode-line.

> is by default dark blue, so that I cannot read anything
> that is printed in this line. How can I change the
> background color of the status line?

Emacs calls these fonts and color attributes "faces".  You can see
what your current default faces are with M-x list-display-colors.  To
change faces, use your menu.

F10 > o > 0 > f RTRN

....which will give your all your faces to change.  Make sure you save
your change:  F10 > o > o

This will put an entry in your ~/.emacs file.  If you don't have that
file, create it.  Check the entry.  Should look something like this:

(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "cyan3"))))) 

In this case, my change is for the minibuffer.  You can change a lot
of faces with these .emacs entries.

nb




      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-08 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-08 12:04 status line color Bettina Kraus
2009-06-08 12:29 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-08 12:43 ` notbob [this message]

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