Re: Changing the Background and foreground colors in Emacs

[Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Don Kauffman <dekauff@cox.net> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been very frustrated trying to locate information on changing the
> background color in Emacs. Currently it is set to White text on a Black
> background. I'd much prefer the reverse -- Black text on white
> background. I've looked through the manuals and there doesn't seem to be
> anything listed about changing that. I've studied the settings and there
> doesn't seem to be anything obvious there either.  
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) although this happened with 5.10
> (Breezy). I was not able to get this resolved there either.  
>
> Thanks In Advance!!
>
> Don K. 
>

Google up color-theme. Its in emacs-goodies-el package.

I prefer white/colour on a black background so in my .emacs I have:

(color-theme-tty-dark)


I agree, googling for things "colour" in emacs is a nightmare : its far
from obvious and causes many nOObs issues. Far too many fiddly options
available which are difficult to differentiates from the more important
ones IMO.

It's "faces" you need to look into.

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