From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs problem Date: 24 Sep 2002 14:02:40 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032876990 4207 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 14:16:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tqUA-00015B-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:16:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tqUF-0004qR-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:16:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!msc1.onvoy!ply1.onvoy!upp1.onvoy!onvoy.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1032876160 7984 9.2.16.245 (24 Sep 2002 14:02:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Sep 2002 14:02:40 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105234 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1789 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1789 I think this sample should work. Set whatever color you like. (set-face-foreground 'isearch "black") (set-face-background 'isearch "green") This may also work. (copy-face 'default 'isearch) Bonus: (set-face-foreground 'secondary-selection "antiquewhite1") (set-face-background 'secondary-selection "Mediumblue") In article , Dinos@IntegratedGenomics.com writes: > When I do an incremental search the letter that it finds first get > highlighted with a blue color. I find this very annoying > and I prefer it not to be highlighted at all as in old linux distributions. > How do I disable this? > I have allready set lazy-face to nil but I think this has to do with > .Xdefaults! -- -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646