From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sigma.sullivan@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs -nw conflicts with (set-foreground-color "xxx") Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:10:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1191867040.227702.174990@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191871098 11297 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2007 19:18:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:18:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sigma.sullivan@gmail.com To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 21:18:16 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iey7K-0002zC-Vs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:18:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iey7F-0006Oh-MG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:18:09 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.117.197.56 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1191867040 10658 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2007 18:10:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:10:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.117.197.56; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152713 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:17:14 -0400 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48222 Archived-At: Hi, When I run "emacs -nw" in an xterm or konsole, the colors all come out wrong. When I use emacs without "-nw" the colors are fine, and when I don't specify colors in the .emacs file then emacs accurately picks up the konsole defaults. But with both "-nw" and colors in the .emacs file, it's as if all the colors are blended with gray. My .emacs file contains: (set-foreground-color "black") (set-background-color "#ffff00") I'm running emacs 21.4.1 on Debian sarge, kernel 2.6.18, with KDE on intel 32-bit hardware. I often need emacs -nw when using X-less situations ... is there a way I can specify the foreground and background colors? Many thanks, Steve