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From: Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Background color in emacs
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:54:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhd84xj6v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1291.1137424773.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Stefan Bienert <stefanbienert@web.de> writes:


> I'm trying to get emacs in X to the same look as in the console. I
> mean with a black background. But if I use set-background-color, the
> black font in emacs does not turn into white?

You also need to set the foreground color, for example:

 M-x set-foreground-color RET green RET

There is something called `color-theme' that you might want to check
out. It helps you do all that, and more:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1291.1137424773.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-16 14:38 ` Background color in emacs Bastien
2006-01-16 15:54 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2006-01-17 20:18 Stefan Bienert
     [not found] <mailman.1416.1137486956.26925.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-01-17 16:28 ` Chris McMahan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-17  8:33 Stefan Bienert
2006-01-17 17:35 ` Edward O'Connor
2006-01-16 12:54 Stefan Bienert
2006-01-16 20:37 ` Peter Dyballa

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