From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: modeline colors Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:33:42 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1164746756.440087.22210@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164825832 13538 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2006 18:43:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:43:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 19:43:50 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 1GpUP3-0001LO-K1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:43:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUP3-0007qu-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:43:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUGx-0007kC-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUGv-0007ii-Dm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUGv-0007iL-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GpUGu-00016A-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GpUGZ-0007PK-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:34:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) 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: , 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:39103 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Eli Barzilay >> 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