Re: modeline colors

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
>> Date: 28 Nov 2006 16:00:04 -0500
>>>> If I put this (and only this) in my .emacs:
>>>>
>>>>   (set-face-background 'modeline "red")
>>>>   (set-face-background 'default "blue4")

Isn't mode-line the correct face (note the hyphen)?

>>>> I get a modeline with the default color.  After Emacs has already
>>>> started, evaluating that first line again produces the expected
>>>> result.  Is this some corner case bug?
>>> M-x customize-face RET mode-line
>> This, as expected, does not solve the problem.
> 
> You mean, if you customize the mode-line colors as you wish them to
> be, then save the customizations for the future sessions, and restart
> Emacs, the mode line again comes up with default colors?
> 
> I can understand why set-face-background doesn't work in your .emacs:
> when Emacs processes those lines, the modeline face does not yet
> exist; you could fix that by, e.g., creating it with make-face.  But
> saving customizations with M-x customize should solve that problem (in
> a different way), so I'm puzzled by ``does not solve the problem''.

But the mode-line face is defined in faces.el, which is dumped into the
emacs executable.

-- 
Kevin