From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Cross Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: face at point Date: 19 Nov 2002 09:06:29 +1100 Organization: University of New England, NSW, Australia Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87el9i5y8q.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> References: <87vg2v6crn.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> <87bs4nls2p.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87n0o75sp1.fsf@blind-bat.une.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1037659105 24083 80.91.224.249 (18 Nov 2002 22:38:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18DuXA-0006GJ-00 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:38:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18DuYC-0001C9-00; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:39:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.usyd.edu.au!news.une.edu.au!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: blind-bat.une.edu.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107174 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3726 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3726 Miles Bader writes: > > > remember seeing some thread in one of the groups which recommended not > > use the window-system variable (can't remember why). For my setup I'm > > using the function device-type e.g. > > My emacs has no such function. > > Are you perchance using xemacs? If so, I think much of what I said > above may not apply. In particular, I was under the impression that > xemacs had far less sophisticated handling of tty faces. > > [Your email headers say `Emacs 21.2' though, so I'm not sure what to think...] > ,----[ C-h f device-type RET ] | device-type is a compiled Lisp function. | (device-type &optional DEVICE) | | Return the type of the specified device (e.g. `x' or `tty'). | Value is `tty' for a tty device (a character-only terminal), | `x' for a device which is a connection to an X server, | 'ns' for a device which is a connection to a NeXTStep dps server, | 'win32' or 'w32' for a Windows-NT window, | 'pm' for an OS/2 Presentation Manager window, | 'intuition' for an Amiga screen `---- Would you consider the default colour for cited text in gnus when following up to a post as being "broken" because its "red" on a black background? Personally, I find this difficult to read, but maybe others would not. Tim