From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invalid face reference: quote Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8d009639-7d15-4c96-81ec-9f966448a04f@googlegroups.com> References: <0df9de35-c113-4a32-b05b-e5d1ec5a73a7@googlegroups.com> <86vb14wjp2.fsf@student.uu.se> <04102757-554a-498e-92a6-047616f9f7a2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466399430 30167 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2016 05:10:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:10:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 20 07:10:29 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bErTf-0002zn-0L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 07:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bErTe-0006lU-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2016 01:10:26 -0400 X-Received: by 10.46.32.71 with SMTP id g68mr3012901ljg.8.1466399246515; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:07:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.113.199 with SMTP id n190mr209066itc.0.1466399246421; Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!w10no3698638lbo.0!news-out.google.com!di11ni4694lbb.1!nntp.google.com!oe3no5498681lbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <04102757-554a-498e-92a6-047616f9f7a2@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=122.56.205.137; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.56.205.137 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:07:26 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218211 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110520 Archived-At: On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 4:58:27 PM UTC+12, Davin Pearson wrote: > On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 4:47:07 PM UTC+12, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Davin Pearson writes: > > > I have added various weird an wonderful > > > customizations to my font lock file. My code > > > looks like Las Vegas but I don't care! > > > It's pretty to look at, and it is far > > > superior to just plain text. > > > > You don't have to write code like that to get > > it to look like Las Vegas: > > > > http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/figures/gnus/message-mode-colors.png > > I like the look of it yes, but I prefer a white (or better still, semi white) background as that is easier to read than with a black screen. In my early days of using Emacs I had a black screen like yours. > > My Emacs customizations total 45,000 lines of code. That puts me in second place behind Jamie Zawinski who has 50,000 lines of Elisp code. Check out my emacs screen-shot: http://davin.50webs.com/emacs-screen-shot.png and you will see why a semi white #f0f0f0 background colour is easier on the eyes for reading text.