From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cursor invisible on text with "default" face in Emacs on Windows Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:24:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C36DE24.6070505@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278667546 25355 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2010 09:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Suvayu Ali Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 11:25:44 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX9q4-00049q-Jj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:25:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OX9q3-0000yy-Ur for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51190 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OX9pE-0000ys-KJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:24:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX9pD-0007Hs-0v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:64217) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OX9pC-0007Hj-RU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: by wwi14 with SMTP id 14so8210058wwi.30 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:24:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=bCpcwDLYPS+Hbl8mOahU6Xru3+Ep+++2kYOA8Y7NFdU=; b=iIQosbswJ1ANs+fXdsB+v0YbjFgXFeVZ9MpofjupfpMX8k57Zk0Gnup0UGCDMSeWjW whjftYr5F+I2Ut3yoy+Re8BsD9//K2a3qcWUtB44HvHIiGdO4U1C9/OkeSrJVx13rmOT FeBpQJ/eRliQOhjrm00FEmloT5UmjxrpOrlG4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=VMYFxobZ+60HIkp7c+ZkYQDB1vb+dsHLJhnsossF+Q7acdIexMFSsn2YIpujMdx5l7 FBQpY2ssSXqyyBCnTaBTnHrmEairLR/JSPxn+UD1TgUjbFwy6E0SqoiLyJs6hubPx3Fp wk6r3xIiRSQGIpSS3GwFtOoHX64tWQC3a3GFM= Original-Received: by 10.216.180.3 with SMTP id i3mr3810074wem.55.1278667487377; Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.182.135 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 02:24:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C36DE24.6070505@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:74159 Archived-At: 2010/7/9 Suvayu Ali : > On Thursday 08 July 2010 09:55 PM, Deniz Dogan wrote: >> >> 2010/7/9 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 >>> >> >> 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