From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dickey@invisible-island.net (Thomas E. Dickey) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dynamic mark color outside of terminal? Date: 27 Oct 2008 11:08:27 GMT Organization: Jtan (jtan.com) Message-ID: <4905a12b$0$5761$e4f62565@news.jtan.com> References: <2f9914e1-803d-49f5-885f-23843ffcc18a@v53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225107662 20286 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2008 11:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:41:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 27 12:42:03 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KuQTr-00049X-5b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KuQSk-00062I-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:40:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!textspool1.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!postnews3.readnews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (OpenBSD/3.7 (i386)) Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8f7e7426.news.jtan.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=l3aTSmn7^4b\GGKKj:QcehD]nc0A`lS1dP6AbI8M55JjkZ7[2QoiCT`CUiH?]48_Pf91L7U`a[hRo Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@pa.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163844 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:59184 Archived-At: quodlibetor wrote: > So, i'm guessing it's actually a limitation of the tty, but when i > open emacs in a terminal and edit code, the mark changes color to be > the color of the text it's over. I like it, though, or at least want > to know how to set it to be that way when i edit outside of the > terminal. Is there a way to do that? I can't find it anywhere. That could be xterm - which (unless you have a specific cursor-color), will set the cursor color to be the reverse of the foreground/background for the character-cell where it is positioned. That generally ensures that the cursor is visible. Setting the cursor color to an explicit value overrides that... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net