region foreground color

region foreground color

[blacknwhite77]

Greetings,
I used emacs ver.23 and whenever I select a region "highlight it" the background color will become LightGoldenrod2 and the original colors "face-fonts" of functions/structures...etc "stays the same".

I have switched to use emacs ver.24 and these defaults changed.
The background color changed to be a blue color and now there is a foreground color of the highlighted text to be white.

I tried to revert to old defaults by adding these two lines to my .emacs:

(set-face-background 'region "LightGoldenrod2") ; Set region background color 
(set-face-foreground 'region "Black")           ; Set region foreground color 

So at least now I have the background color set right and the text color is not the annoying white one.
However, now all the text that is highlighted become black color.

How is it possible to configure emacs to leave the highlighted text in it's original color?

Thanks a bunch.

RE: region foreground color

[Drew Adams]

> I have switched to use emacs ver.24 and these defaults changed.
> The background color changed to be a blue color and now there 
> is a foreground color of the highlighted text to be white.

I don't see that with `emacs -Q'.  Perhaps your init file loads something that
changes face `region'?

> I tried to revert to old defaults by adding these two lines 
> to my .emacs:
> (set-face-background 'region "LightGoldenrod2") 
> (set-face-foreground 'region "Black")
> 
> So at least now I have the background color set right and the 
> text color is not the annoying white one.
> However, now all the text that is highlighted become black color.

You just set it to Black, so that's not surprising.

> How is it possible to configure emacs to leave the 
> highlighted text in it's original color?

(set-face-foreground 'region nil) ; UNset the foreground

[Of if you use `M-x customize-face region' then just uncheck the box that
specifies a foreground color.  Easy.  No need to know any Lisp.]

Re: region foreground color

[Rami A]

Drew...That is "exactly" what I was looking for.
Setting the foreground region color to nil worked.
Thank you so much.