From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: evidence: nano(1) is better than Emacs Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:14:17 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761edo4p2.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87egt4ulg4.fsf@debian.uxu> <877fyvh97x.fsf@debian.uxu> <21609.42402.786692.211463@mail.eng.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416262524 12682 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 22:15:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 22:15:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 23:15:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqUZq-0007BX-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 23:15:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50463 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqUZp-0001KD-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:15:17 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qiz7yRPwjDucUrUkt4b6nSchoZA= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208727 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101005 Archived-At: Yuri Khan writes: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:37 PM, wrote: > >> Can you change the colors in nano? > > Can. But it lacks indirection layers. ... > > So one does not simply change one face and get e.g. > all keywords recolored; instead, one has to copy all > the relevant configs and edit them for each > language. You can also change the color in the terminal below nano. That is possible in the Linux VT (console, ttys) but also in X terminals, e.g., xterm, urxvt, and so on. I have a page that describes - or shows I should say - how to do it: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/cols/www/index.html Go nuts :) -- underground experts united