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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: 2501@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - font's are unreadable
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:11 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902271822.n1RIMBBh018222@rodan.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87prh3ssf1.fsf@jondo.cante.net> (Jari Aalto's message of "Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:25:54 +0200")

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

  > On a white mrxt black on white terminal[1], the font-lock colors are
  > unreadable. See attached picture.
  > 
  >     $ tput colors
  >     8
  > 
  > Please improve font-lock-keywords.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > [1] Debian; mrxvt 0.5.3-2 terminal
  > http://packages.debian.org/mrxvt

It appears that emacs thinks that you have dark background.   What did
you set TERM to?
This looks like it is an rxvt derivative, so the value of the COLORFGBG
environment variable should help emacs realize what is the default
background. 






  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-27 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27 17:25 bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - font's are unreadable Jari Aalto
2009-02-27 18:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-02-27 20:01   ` bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - fonts " Jari Aalto
2009-02-27 20:14     ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-02-27 22:03       ` Jari Aalto
2016-01-14  4:58         ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-01-14 16:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-16  4:17             ` Andrew Hyatt
2009-02-27 20:09   ` bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - font's " Jari Aalto
2022-02-13 10:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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