From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kester Clegg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-looks... Date: 28 Jan 2003 10:45:07 +0000 Organization: Rolls Royce UTC, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3e35cc88$0$128$edfadb0f@dtext02.news.tele.dk> <848yx568y6.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043750780 18804 80.91.224.249 (28 Jan 2003 10:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18dTFy-0004sz-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:46:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dTFO-0003Hn-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:45:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!server1.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc310.cs.york.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 1043750705 19801 144.32.40.101 (28 Jan 2003 10:45:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jan 2003 10:45:04 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109482 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6002 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6002 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > emacs-colors are white and black (black text and white > > background). I really don't like that - how do I set emacs to use > > the 'normal' colors (green and black)? > > You can set it from ~/.Xdefaults, like for other X11 programs. But I personally think it's not wise to split your colour preferences over two files - I like to keep in one .emacs file which I take where ever I go. Why not try M-x list-faces-display and change the default from there? -- ************************************************************************ Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science, Research Assistant (UTC) University of York, Tel (01904) 43 27 49 email: kester at cs.york.ac.uk ************************************************************************