From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Changing color of transient mark Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:42:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <310a9cf8-b314-41ca-b95b-d4313b47a4f3@default> References: <87lhk4jnuz.fsf@engels.histomat.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423680200 30495 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2015 18:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:43:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Haines Brown , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 11 19:43:04 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLcFa-0001Su-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLcFa-0003oa-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60196) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLcF8-0003WD-A9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLcF3-0006db-7T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:42:34 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:33592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLcF3-0006dX-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t1BIgRD1010338 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:42:27 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t1BIgRrd028745 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:42:27 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0007.oracle.com (abhmp0007.oracle.com [141.146.116.13]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t1BIgQmk029126; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:42:26 GMT In-Reply-To: <87lhk4jnuz.fsf@engels.histomat.net> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102650 Archived-At: > I'm running emacs 24.4.1, and the transient mark color is a very dark > blue. This makes the highlighted text hard to read. >=20 > Id like to redefine the background color something like this: >=20 > ((transient-mark-mode 1) > (set-background-color "mistyrose") > (set-foreground-color "firebrick")) >=20 > but of course this does not work. Short of running PC mode, how can I > change at least the highlighting background color? Customize face `region': M-x customize-face region