Re: modeline colors

[Mark Elston <m.elston@advantest-ard.com>]

* aartist wrote (on 11/28/2006 12:45 PM):
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
>> Does anyone know why in some versions of Emacs (specifically, the one
>> shipped with FC6: 21.4.1), changing the default background disables
>> my modeline color setting?
>>
>> If I put this (and only this) in my .emacs:
>>
>>   (set-face-background 'modeline "red")
>>   (set-face-background 'default "blue4")
>>
>> I get a modeline with the default color.  After Emacs has already
>> started, evaluating that first line again produces the expected
>> result.  Is this some corner case bug?
>>
>> --
>>           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>>                   http://www.barzilay.org/                 Maze is Life!
> 
> M-x customize-face RET mode-line
> 

Here is what I have in my custom.el:

(custom-set-faces
  '(mode-line ((t (:inverse-video t :foreground "Firebrick")))))