From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gary" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:13:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83wrptrtjk.fsf@garydjones.name> References: <87k4ltivfv.fsf@mail.tbulka.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286525658 15792 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2010 08:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 08:14:18 +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 Oct 08 10:14:16 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 1P485o-0006fK-Bf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:14:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P485n-0003hY-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:14:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34159 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P485M-0003hT-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:13:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P485L-0006A8-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:40951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P485L-00069t-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P485J-0006Ws-F6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:13:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 80-219-87-195.dclient.hispeed.ch ([80.219.87.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:13:45 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by 80-219-87-195.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:13:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-219-87-195.dclient.hispeed.ch User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes Cancel-Lock: sha1:sOnSy7jAnwgmQ6vYVPvAxEEHxgU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-10-22 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75093 Archived-At: Thomas Bulka wrote: > Gary writes: > >>> Yes: the former is a text terminal, the latter is a GUI session. >>> Emacs cannot control the fonts and default colors of a text terminal. >>> It can do that on a graphics display. >> >> Can I persuade it to not do it on a graphics display :) > > I don't know if I fully got your point. But wouldn't be using Emacs > outside the terminal an option for you? Basically I have two versions - one the standard Windows emacs from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ and the other the Cygwin emacs - one "graphical" and one console. I have got most of my configuration working with both, only the faces (particularly the colours) aren't happily working with both.