From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Babcock Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I set border color in 21.3 (Win32) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 05:32:29 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117517433 20019 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2005 05:30:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 05:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 07:30:31 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DczKI-0006dR-Lm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 07:30:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DczPK-0002GY-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 01:35:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!82235114!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Xnews/06.12.01 Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.101.123.23 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net Original-X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1117517549 67.101.123.23 (Mon, 30 May 2005 22:32:29 PDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 22:32:29 PDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131626 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27085 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27085 Daniel Brockman wrote in news:mailman.2527.1117514716.25862.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org: >> In emacs 21.3 under Win32 I get a 1-character wide black border on >> the left and right sides of the window. (The arrows indicating a >> wrapped or long line appear in this area.) How do I control the >> color of this area? > > M-x customize-face RET fringe RET. So, that area is called "fringe". Now I can set the color. It's not just in mythology that knowing a things true name gives you power over it. Thanks. I thought I wanted to match the fringe and default background colors, but now that I've played with it a little bit, I think I'll try slightly different colors to give a subtle boundary. Black next to blue made a jarring boundary. >> I thought it might be something like (setq border-color "red"), but >> this doesn't change the display at all. > > Haha, you just made a wild guess? No, apropos RET border RET told me that there was something called border- color, but looking again, I see it's not a variable so setq doesn't make sense. There was some method to my flailing.