From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Different background color for different windows/modes Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:10:48 +0200 Message-ID: <86pocr5baf.fsf@zoho.com> References: <609841d6-4b1f-4aab-9bf6-5b3dc0cc4112@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500829891 11671 195.159.176.226 (23 Jul 2017 17:11:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:11:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 23 19:11:27 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZKPe-0002ks-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:11:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZKPk-0004a2-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:11:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZKPK-0004Zu-0e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZKPG-0005Nm-RL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:11:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39181 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZKPG-0005Mm-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZKP6-0000yu-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:10:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:yFTKograCJwXZGHIhLPMME/9tyE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113843 Archived-At: Alexandre Oberlin wrote: > Someone gave me a hint to do this in Emacs > 24.4+ but I don't find the message on > gnu.emacs.help (Is this NG dying?). Usenet has been dying for a very long time. Many once hugely populated groups are completely quiet or consists only of senior citizens telling their tales and reliving their memories, not caring much what the topic of the group is. They still have the knowledge tho so it can be useful to ask questions. And not just for the 1975 answer. Are you getting gnu.emacs.help from aioe.org? Well, the newsgroup is operational. Last time I heard, the mailing list had a small program attached that posted all incomings to gnu.emacs.help, and reposted newsgroup posts as mails - I suppose? - however that seemed not to have ever worked perfectly, and now, it seems it is left adrift even more so... But there is no real reason to use gnu.emacs.help anymore. If you want the mailing list material but with the superior Usenet common interface and organization, you can use gmane.emacs.help - this is the hole purpose of Gmane, to enable us to use mailing lists as newsgroups. Which is much better. Many people realize this, while others are in denial. Gmane is the best of both world, the on-topicness of mailing lists, and the interface and organization of Usenet. That's why I call Gmane "Usenet 2.0" or "Usenet Reloaded". Sadly, it is only partly true. Because what it isn't, and never will be (why?), is the computer culture, the Might and Magic world that was old Usenet, with heroes, villains, techno-wizards, and jesters - fuds that lasted decades and discussions about virtually *anything* - a whole superstructure of HUMANS on top of the technology. Now there's only technology left. Where are the humans? H-e-l-l-o-o? Can anyone read this?! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573