From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gil Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#2663: Background color in Emacs.app Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <719f299a-1cf8-4898-99c5-4806581b361c@13g2000yql.googlegroups.com> References: <5f089c510903131248k6c8c2ac4me4047a0561363f50@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237266808 16359 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 05:13:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:13:28 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 17 06:14:45 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1LjRdU-0000yc-Kw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:14:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33459 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LjRc8-0000Mz-7I for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:13:20 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!13g2000yql.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.221.155.152 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1237225762 15490 127.0.0.1 (16 Mar 2009 17:49:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 13g2000yql.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.221.155.152; posting-account=0vYgvAoAAACWkXgr-eyOrUOHIdZXZYHs User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:54237 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:13:14 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:26421 Archived-At: On Mar 16, 8:00=A0am, David Engster wrote: > Gilbert Harman writes: > > In Emacs.app, change the background color from white to black and make > > appropriate changes in the text and other colors in .emacs. =A0Then rem= ove > > those changes from .emacs and restart. =A0The changed colors continue t= o > > appear. > > I once had the same problem. Check if you have a file > > ~/Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Emacs.plist > > That file contained some of the settings from my .emacs, including the > background color, so that deleting if from .emacs didn't have the > desired effect. I'm not sure when and why that file was written. It is > mentioned here > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Mac-Environm... > > as a means to save Xresources. > > Regards, > David That was it! Thanks, Gil