From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debian emacs -nw and background colour Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:14:16 +0100 Message-ID: <87hcr8i8ef.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <871wicl99a.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177267019 24729 80.91.229.12 (22 Apr 2007 18:36:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:36:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 22 20:36:56 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hfgvf-0007rl-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:36:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hfh0y-0007IN-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:42:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net tLquxu/mGR0CUfPXeqT6TgrkTynZpYZG6SCBXwc4ojNQBX9Fr4 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8zWBHhJwE6wKgu+QDEsB2HS60uE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147386 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42991 Archived-At: sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch writes: > I have no idea what causes this effect. But have you tried to define a > color theme in your .emacs in the following way? > > (when (not window-system) > (color-theme-emacs-nw) > ) > > However, the theme emacs-nw has a grey background. Maybe any other > theme of the Debian emacs-goodies package is suitable for your > needs. Or maybe a color definition using the (when (not window-system) > (...)) command has the wanted effect. Thanks for the pointer to color-theme and emacs-goodies-el. I redefined color-theme-emacs-nw to use brightwhite instead of white and that gives me what I want, though I think I will be tweaking themes for some time yet! Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html