From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs color White on Black setup question Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 19:40:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337039116 13791 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 23:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:45:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 01:45:15 2012 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 1SU4wz-0006oo-Iu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 01:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU4wy-0001aJ-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 19:45:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 30 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="eEvqGQsJJYL9/mBIdBpRPw"; logging-data="28559"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+KZYr7gVuo8cQyDhTrMb6g8lMzYcwxp34=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SeUKU7qgLpFNbbPliorO7CEjXHc= sha1:gXgGac8x8koi0C+LUnwDO6N0umM= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192422 comp.emacs:102459 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84829 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > emacs color setup question. > > normally i start emacs without changing any color theme stuff. Default > is just fine for me. > > but sometimes, i want the background black. The problem is, you can't > simply set background to black, you'll also need to change a bunch of > default text colors. > > is there a simple way to set background to black and other colors > automatically set to readable? > > Note: i rather not install any of those color theme stuff. > This is emacs running GUI on Windows, not in terminal. So, no X11 or > terminal/ANSI color setup involved. Just pure emacs. Emacs is supposed to detect the dark background and then pick colors for text from a brighter pallet. Customize frame-background-mode to dark and see if that helps. Personally, I always use a black background. I like chartreuse as my default foreground color and I set a load of colors in my .emacs. -- Dan Espen