From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Kalb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs help; can't see to alter options! Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:02:51 -0400 Organization: Turnabout Message-ID: <87my6cm7hg.fsf@gmail.com.INVALID> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249654665 14792 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2009 14:17:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:17:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 07 16:17:38 2009 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 1MZQGI-0004rw-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:17:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZQGI-0004UD-1e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:17:38 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX190/HMAfoAwG5Zknfyxda7c+d0ykOTbxhWWMiLbcpO8wHh5ozGCsGRy+b2dgHH/cenxaddb281LADuyyTmorCl1cyfvlqB/X9pluvNZZ/fczJ1b9oBY+dcgyz0NksWY9EXBQa/rXOvI4g== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:10:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/a0OTcfv0g9sYgncda2bvwFDkrAS4tCTA= Cancel-Lock: sha1:/KTRMyz1yRmtchiOGWkbBQxdoHY= sha1:b0H/ZrIU0LmZk9j+3RaGMPHsJQI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171743 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:17:12 -0400 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:66934 Archived-At: >>>>> "Kalebmcc" == Kalebmcc writes: Kalebmcc> I have poor eyesight, and so navigating Emacs is very Kalebmcc> difficult for me. I am very new but want to learn. I found Kalebmcc> that switching Vim to a dark, terminal-like colorscheme Kalebmcc> helped immensely. Kalebmcc> I stumbled through the Faces options and found a variable Kalebmcc> that seemed to indicate background color, but when I set Kalebmcc> it to dark and saved, all it did was turn the left and Kalebmcc> right borders dark. This is not helpful. I'd suggest getting color-theme, http://www.nongnus.org/color-theme. Once that's up and running it should be easy to find a combination of colors that makes life easier for you. jk