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
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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
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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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