From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
To: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:24:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTilgK_Kip1lVu_Vh1h-oS44hhB9LiRI8hWT-8BQD@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C36DE24.6070505@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-09 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-08 23:58 Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows Deniz Dogan
2010-07-09 4:55 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-09 8:30 ` Suvayu Ali
2010-07-09 9:24 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1278651350.6118.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-09 7:00 ` Tim X
2010-07-11 11:12 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-07-11 11:18 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] <mailman.14.1278633522.10601.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-09 1:31 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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