changing fringe color

changing fringe color

[Gilbert Harman]

Is there a way to change the fringe color of a frame in GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1,
e.g. to red?

 Gil

Re: changing fringe color

[Peter Lee]

>>>> Gilbert Harman writes:

    Gilbert> Is there a way to change the fringe color of a frame in
    Gilbert> GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1, e.g. to red?

M-x customize-group RET basic-faces RET

Look for Fringe.

,----
| Face: fringe (customize this face)
| Documentation: Basic face for the fringes to the left and right of windows under X.
| 
|          Family: unspecified
|           Width: unspecified
|          Height: unspecified
|          Weight: unspecified
|           Slant: unspecified
|      Foreground: unspecified
|      Background: gray19
|       Underline: unspecified
|        Overline: unspecified
|  Strike-through: unspecified
|             Box: unspecified
|         Inverse: unspecified
|         Stipple: unspecified
| Font or fontset: unspecified
|         Inherit: unspecified
`----

Re: changing fringe color

[Gilbert Harman]

> Is there a way to change the fringe color of a frame in GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1,
> e.g. to red?
> 
>  Gil

Peter Lee suggested using customization, but that changes the color of
fringes on all frames.  But I want to start up with several frames with
different background colors with matching fringes.  The following makes a
new frame with background color and background fringe color gray10:

(setq rframe (make-frame '((background-color . "gray10"))))
(set-face-background 'fringe "gray10" rframe)


  Gil

Re: changing fringe color

[Michael Slass]

Gilbert Harman <harman@Princeton.EDU> writes:

>Peter Lee suggested using customization, but that changes the color of
>fringes on all frames.  But I want to start up with several frames with
>different background colors with matching fringes.  The following makes a
>new frame with background color and background fringe color gray10:
>
>(setq rframe (make-frame '((background-color . "gray10"))))
>(set-face-background 'fringe "gray10" rframe)
>

What are your criteria for choosing the frames' colors?  (frame name,
contents, visited files?)

-- 
Mike Slass

Re: changing fringe color

[Gilbert Harman]

> 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.

 Gil

Re: changing fringe color

[Michael Slass]

Gilbert Harman <harman@Princeton.EDU> 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?


-- 
Mike Slass

Re: changing fringe color

[Gilbert Harman]

On 8/3/04 4:22 PM, "Michael Slass" <miknrene@drizzle.com> wrote:

> Gilbert Harman <harman@Princeton.EDU> 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