From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gilbert Harman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: changing fringe color Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:53:57 -0400 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091573667 3993 80.91.224.253 (3 Aug 2004 22:54:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:54:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 04 00:54:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bs8Al-0001y8-00 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 00:54:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs8ED-0008Tj-D1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs8E2-0008Te-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs8E0-0008TS-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bs8E0-0008TP-T3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.112.130.38] (helo=Princeton.EDU) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bs8AT-0008Ck-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i73MrxJ8001211 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:54:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from [10.0.1.201] (pool-141-150-255-72.pskn.east.verizon.net [141.150.255.72]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i73MrwtZ014451 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:53:59 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.0.0.040405 Original-To: In-Reply-To: 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19973 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19973 On 8/3/04 4:22 PM, "Michael Slass" wrote: > Gilbert Harman writes: > >>> What are your criteria for choosing the frames' colors? (frame name, >>> contents, visited files?) >> >> It's just that I start up with several frames, some with black background >> color, but I prefer that overlapping frames have different background >> colors. >> > > I guess my question should have been more exact: > What programmatically-discoverable conditions would you like the frame > colors to depend on? > At the moment I make the frames at startup in my .emacs. The general principle is that the color of the fringe should be the same as the background color of the frame. Gil