From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Suvayu Ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:30:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4C36DE24.6070505@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278664279 14485 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2010 08:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 08:31:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 10:31:18 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX8zO-0003TG-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:31:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OX8zN-0006uO-6K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:31:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35991 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OX8yl-0006uJ-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX8yk-0007MI-9h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:30:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:50923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX8yk-0007MA-5F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pwi8 with SMTP id 8so1606207pwi.0 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:30:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=glFenvWENMq3PZtvpaqfTRp/gubMAXyvHqsdhcChAYs=; b=rJN/znGU+pUpWEiKQWbOKFQ9VewU6xzvUYXzMjC6E03XkK6pPwcjHqjhhovGqX9qWj ZloYRyh7hdIHATtRZ6Df0EAoaMete24EfdnJJXe1m0S7C2tWU6ollNgYW+OxHlptADyp B4f1SdbPIXfgANAAGI1B07ROU6VimFESLaTwU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mp6ZXEewncOFB/r7VvUdwI2QsqocgQ4VL0VBbC4bhzQ3lEhnqQ2S/zJXA9Mh0J7qkE +Y+IMxIb0z9VB9z+kNQtz/WID+7csIUmjoN1IcTjodyiwtaY1njQ+3CIAfsikeLJm+cJ HpL/I27Gq9f12xG4+vNs0Jhct81HX9VZcpyjE= Original-Received: by 10.114.88.17 with SMTP id l17mr10922500wab.218.1278664231765; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from bhishma.homelinux.net (d66-183-47-128.bchsia.telus.net [66.183.47.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s29sm10159284wak.14.2010.07.09.01.30.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:30:30 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100621 Fedora/3.0.5-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:74158 Archived-At: On Thursday 08 July 2010 09:55 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote: > 2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan: >> This is essentially my .emacs: >> >> (set-foreground-color "white") >> (set-background-color "black") >> >> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the >> cursor is invisible. Why is this? >> >> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1 >> > > Actually, it seems that it is not only the default face, but also e.g. > the "button" face... I'd bet there are more faces which this applies > to. > This is not exactly a solution to your problem but since I see you want a colour scheme more to the likes of emacs invoked with `-no-window-system', I would suggest you try setting `inverse-video' to t. An even better solution would be to use the `color-themes' library and choose a dark theme. I use one myself. If you are interested I can share my setup. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.