Re: Locating the default colors used by emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 04.07.2007 um 08:31 schrieb tigerleopard:

> I am trying to find out where the color information from emacs is  
> located.

There are two sections in ~/.emacs: a free-form section and the one  
starting with "(custom-set-variables" and having as comment a warning  
not to edit this section. Usually this section is "maintained" by the  
customise interface in GNU Emacs. Look at menu entries "Options ->  
Customize Emacs!" Another way is to determine the characteristics of  
some character (C-u C-x = in GNU Emacs 22) and then choose (RET or  
[long-]click on the underlined hyperlink) the "face value" to enter  
the customisation interface. In GNU Emacs 21 you would need to invoke  
describe-text-properties.

In the free-form or Lisp section you can use for example:

         (setq initial-frame-alist '(
           (mouse-color           . "midnightblue")
           (foreground-color      . "grey20")
           (background-color      . "alice blue")
           (internal-border-width . 2)
           (line-spacing          . 1)
           (active-alpha          . 0.875)
           (inactive-alpha        . 0.75)
           (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
hiraginomin")
           (top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50)))
         (setq default-frame-alist '(
           (border-color          . "#4e3831")
           (foreground-color      . "grey10")
           (background-color      . "ghost white")
           (vertical-scroll-bars  . left)
           (cursor-color          . "purple")
           (cursor-type           . box)
           (active-alpha          . 0.75)
           (inactive-alpha        . 0.875)
           (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
hiraginokaku")
           (top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))


X11 users can use X Ressources (look into the GNU Emacs manual, i.e.  
C-h i m Emacs and then search for the "Command Line Options and  
Arguments" node), which are organised in files like ~/.Xdefaults or  
~/.Xressources (depends on the actual code in ~/.xinit or similiar  
files which set up the X11 environment).  ~/.Xdefaults or  
~/.Xressources can #include other files with set X application  
defaults. A lot "templates" exist in directories like /usr/X11R6/lib/ 
X11/app-defaults or /usr/X11R7/share/X11/app-defaults.

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   Pete

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