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bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> This works great in interactive work, when I actually have a window
>> system running.  However, in batch mode, Emacs seems to think that it
>> is displaying on a black-and-white device, so the fontification is
>> much poorer in this case.
>
> The easiest may be to define the faces explicitly:
>
>   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :foreground "white" :background "blue")
>   ;; etc.

Yes.  I ended up doing something in this direction, but differently.
See my other post.

Thanks.

- Carsten