Re: emacs background on console/tty

["z.cHris" <chrisdcheng@gmail.com>]

On Jul 14, 9:45 pm, henry atting <nsmp...@online.de> wrote:
> When I start emacs on a virtual console it provides me with a somehow
> light gray background though according to my settings a black background
> is expected.
>
> In ~/.zshrc I have these lines:
>
> if [ -n $DISPLAY ];
>         then export TERM="xterm-256color"
>         else export TERM="linux"
> fi
>
> The ~/.emacs setup for console colors is:
>
> (if window-system nil
>  (set-background-color "color-25")
>  (set-foreground-color "yellow")
>  (custom-set-faces
> '(default ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
> '(highline-face ((t (:background "black"))))
> '(font-lock-keyword-face ((t (:foreground "cyan"))))
> '(mode-line ((t (:background "black" :foreground "red"))))
>  (blink-cursor-mode nil)))
>
> As far as I understand this it has something to with ncurses colors on a
> console but it did not help me much anyway.
>
> --http://literaturlatenight.de

I have encounter this problem before when i used terminal to open
emacs,

the color setting is actually your terminal color setting, nothing to
do with dotemacs file.