From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: turning colors off Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:02:27 -0500 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87k5law3on.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202834523 12194 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 16:42:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:42:03 +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 Feb 12 17:42:25 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 1JOyCh-0003rS-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOyCE-0005Cy-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:41:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newspeer1.de.telia.net!newspeer4.de.telia.net!de.telia.net!news.banetele.no!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1202832984 21039 132.183.29.121 (12 Feb 2008 16:16:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:16:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y3paz5lEoZR4cy7koaj7K/bpACs= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156080 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:51458 Archived-At: Rich Pixley writes: > I'm having a lot of trouble with recent versions of emacs which try to > use color as a means of syntax highlighting. I'm sure many people > must like this, but I find them illegible mostly due to contrast > issues. > > Is there some way I can shut this off globally? Yes, as Drew already mentioned. However, if you'd like different colors you can customize the faces, or you can use the color-theme.el package (see http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ColorTheme ). Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109