From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Elston Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: modeline colors Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:38:31 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <12mphrv1j4cs046@corp.supernews.com> References: <1164746756.440087.22210@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164757234 3261 80.91.229.2 (28 Nov 2006 23:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:40:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 29 00:40:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpCYm-00018V-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:40:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GpCYl-0004v2-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:40:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-04!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <1164746756.440087.22210@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 26 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143474 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39075 Archived-At: * 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")))))