Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Deniz Dogan]

This is essentially my .emacs:

(set-foreground-color "white")
(set-background-color "black")

However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
cursor is invisible. Why is this?

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:

> This is essentially my .emacs:
>
> (set-foreground-color "white")
> (set-background-color "black")
>
> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
> cursor is invisible. Why is this?

Because you need to set the cursor color too.

       (set-cursor-color     "red")
       (when (fboundp 'set-mouse-color)
         (set-mouse-color     "yellow"))



-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>:
> This is essentially my .emacs:
>
> (set-foreground-color "white")
> (set-background-color "black")
>
> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
> cursor is invisible. Why is this?
>
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
>

Actually, it seems that it is not only the default face, but also e.g.
the "button" face... I'd bet there are more faces which this applies
to.

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Tim X]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>:
>> This is essentially my .emacs:
>>
>> (set-foreground-color "white")
>> (set-background-color "black")
>>
>> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
>> cursor is invisible. Why is this?
>>
>> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
>>
>
> Actually, it seems that it is not only the default face, but also e.g.
> the "button" face... I'd bet there are more faces which this applies
> to.

Do M-x list-faces-display to see all currently defined faces, what they
are set to and an easy way to change the ones you want to be different. 

,----[ C-h f list-faces-display RET ]
| list-faces-display is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `faces.el'.
| 
| It is bound to <control down-mouse-2> <df> , <menu-bar> <edit> <props> <df> .
| 
| (list-faces-display &optional REGEXP)
| 
| List all faces, using the same sample text in each.
| The sample text is a string that comes from the variable
| `list-faces-sample-text'.
| 
| If REGEXP is non-nil, list only those faces with names matching
| this regular expression.  When called interactively with a prefix
| arg, prompt for a regular expression.
| 
| [back]
`----

Tim

-- 
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Suvayu Ali]

On Thursday 08 July 2010 09:55 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan<deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>:
>> This is essentially my .emacs:
>>
>> (set-foreground-color "white")
>> (set-background-color "black")
>>
>> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
>> cursor is invisible. Why is this?
>>
>> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
>>
>
> Actually, it seems that it is not only the default face, but also e.g.
> the "button" face... I'd bet there are more faces which this applies
> to.
>

This is not exactly a solution to your problem but since I see you want 
a colour scheme more to the likes of emacs invoked with 
`-no-window-system', I would suggest you try setting `inverse-video' to 
t. An even better solution would be to use the `color-themes' library 
and choose a dark theme. I use one myself. If you are interested I can 
share my setup.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/7/9 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>:
> On Thursday 08 July 2010 09:55 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote:
>>
>> 2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan<deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> This is essentially my .emacs:
>>>
>>> (set-foreground-color "white")
>>> (set-background-color "black")
>>>
>>> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
>>> cursor is invisible. Why is this?
>>>
>>> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
>>>
>>
>> Actually, it seems that it is not only the default face, but also e.g.
>> the "button" face... I'd bet there are more faces which this applies
>> to.
>>
>
> This is not exactly a solution to your problem but since I see you want a
> colour scheme more to the likes of emacs invoked with `-no-window-system', I
> would suggest you try setting `inverse-video' to t. An even better solution
> would be to use the `color-themes' library and choose a dark theme. I use
> one myself. If you are interested I can share my setup.
>

Thanks, but I'm getting the feeling that this is an Emacs bug. I don't
like using color-theme, since I'm quite satisfied with the default
(dark) Emacs colors, save this problem with the cursor.

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>:
> This is essentially my .emacs:
>
> (set-foreground-color "white")
> (set-background-color "black")
>
> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
> cursor is invisible. Why is this?
>
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
>

So basically no one knows why this is happening? Should I report this as a bug?

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/9 Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>:
>> This is essentially my .emacs:
>>
>> (set-foreground-color "white")
>> (set-background-color "black")
>>
>> However, when the cursor is on text with the "default" face, the
>> cursor is invisible. Why is this?
>>
>> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
>>
>
> So basically no one knows why this is happening? Should I report this as a bug?

Please do.