From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the Background and foreground colors in Emacs Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:56:32 +0200 Organization: CERN LHC - http://public.web.cern.ch/public/ Message-ID: <87odteha0f.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158504044 11974 80.91.229.2 (17 Sep 2006 14:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 17 16:40:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOxor-0000Qq-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOxor-0001wJ-8B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:40:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net rvZIwuPZfuMfDG0e1oYdQAzenhJSG5BFcFkLcn+2uokXWlwp+7 X-Orig-Path: news.ibm.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xf4l3SSCcxI8YaljBoVC2UWVRcM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141811 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37433 Archived-At: Don Kauffman writes: > Hi all, > > I've been very frustrated trying to locate information on changing the > background color in Emacs. Currently it is set to White text on a Black > background. I'd much prefer the reverse -- Black text on white > background. I've looked through the manuals and there doesn't seem to be > anything listed about changing that. I've studied the settings and there > doesn't seem to be anything obvious there either. > > I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) although this happened with 5.10 > (Breezy). I was not able to get this resolved there either. > > Thanks In Advance!! > > Don K. > Google up color-theme. Its in emacs-goodies-el package. I prefer white/colour on a black background so in my .emacs I have: (color-theme-tty-dark) I agree, googling for things "colour" in emacs is a nightmare : its far from obvious and causes many nOObs issues. Far too many fiddly options available which are difficult to differentiates from the more important ones IMO. It's "faces" you need to look into. --