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: Re: emacs -nw conflicts with (set-foreground-color "xxx") Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:27:53 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1191904073.568407.236850@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <1191867040.227702.174990@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191904845 6528 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2007 04:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 04:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 06:40:43 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 1If6te-0003XH-BO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1If6tY-0008DT-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.190.142.31 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1191904073 8116 127.0.0.1 (9 Oct 2007 04:27:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 04:27:53 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.190.142.31; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152729 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:48235 Archived-At: On Oct 8, 2:44 pm, Peter Dyballa wrote: > M-x list-colors-display RET Peter, Thanks for the tip. I tried list-colors-display in "emacs -nw" and got the following 8 colors: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white This is odd, since I know the konsole can display far more colors than that. For example, if I put in my .emacs file (set-background-color "yellow") (set-foreground-color "black") then when I run "emacs -nw" the background is a dark brown-orange, and the foreground text is black. xmag shows the background to be #b26818. This can make it difficult to read the text. If I use (set-background-color "green") (set-foreground-color "red") then the colors I actually end up with, according to xmag, are background #18b218 and foreground #b21818. Does this make any sense? How can I get rid of the color modification? Many thanks, Steve