Pls help in emacs settings for Foreground and Background color settings

Pls help in emacs settings for Foreground and Background color settings

[Senthil Nathan]

Hi,

I am new to this editor. The version of my Emacs is " GNU Emacs 21.3.1 
(i386-mingw-nt 5.1.2600) of 2004-03-11 on NYAUMO".

For Linux machines the settings for the foregroung  and backgroun 
colours are specified in .emacs file. I am using Windows machine and I 
cant fine .emacs file in my installation directory or at any other places.

Can you please provide me a sample .emacs file that suits to me. I need 
to change the default Background color of White to some dark colours 
that won't irritates my eyes.

I am awaiting for your response.

Thanks in advence.

Regards
Senthil.S

Re: Pls help in emacs settings for Foreground and Background color settings

[Richard Stallman]

    For Linux machines the settings for the foregroung  and backgroun 
    colours are specified in .emacs file.

These machines are running the GNU/Linux operating system; please
don't call them "Linux machines".  For more explanation, see
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.

     I am using Windows machine

Your real problem is that you are using Windows.  If yo SHOULD to
GNU/Linux, that will fix this problem, and it will also give you
freedom.

Re: Pls help in emacs settings for Foreground and Background color settings

[A Soare]

Read and ask on the emacs wiki site, or dot emacs, or on IRC freenode.net, 
#emacs; if you do not know elisp, you can customize colors using customize 
commands.

Re: Pls help in emacs settings for Foreground and Background color settings

[Roberto Rodríguez]

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2006/12/6, Senthil Nathan <senthils@adventnet.com>:

For Linux machines the settings for the foregroung  and backgroun
> colours are specified in .emacs file. I am using Windows machine and I
> cant fine .emacs file in my installation directory or at any other places.
>
> Can you please provide me a sample .emacs file that suits to me. I need
> to change the default Background color of White to some dark colours
> that won't irritates my eyes.


Don't worry. If .emacs doesn't exist, visit it in the default directory and
it will be created automatically. (If you know how to set an environment
variable, you could mock GNU and Unix setting HOME to /home/username.)

To change the default colors, you could append something like this to your
.emacs:

(when window-system
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black"))
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "cyan"))
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(cursor-color . "yellow")))

Next time you have a question about Emacs usage, please search
www.emacswiki.org, or else post your question in
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs.

This mailing list is meant for reporting bugs in GNU Emacs.

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