From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Background colour customization Date: 25 Jan 2005 10:14:41 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106644776 21833 80.91.229.6 (25 Jan 2005 09:19:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 10:19:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CtMr9-0004X9-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:19:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CtN3O-0004Ng-A9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:32:06 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: individual.net hw7z4eFPJwcIdEc+A48nmAvj6liS29tdp9paMpCcNkTaNXynGP User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128118 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23614 "romeomedina\@libero\.it" writes: > Recently I downloaded and installed Emacs CVS, and it came up all > white, whereas I like that dark smart green with which Emacs opens > up, i.e., from Mandrake default installation. Can anyone suggest > how to customize that? 'M-x list-display-colors' didn't help: I > couldn't find the colour I wanted over there, and even if I had > found it I don't know how to set it by default. Not exactly answering your question, but if you didn't know about it before, you might want to check out color-theme.el, found here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme Maybe there you will find a theme that suits your taste. /Mathias