Re: set the highlight color when searching

[gerlach <jack@aiai.de>]

Am 14.05.2013 16:13, schrieb Drew Adams:
>>> when searching for text the actual highlighted text in
>>> emacs 23.3 in ubuntu 12.04 is lightblue with pink background
>>> - a horrible combination, I often can't read it. How can I
>>> change lightblue to e.g. white?
>>
>> Customize the face 'isearch'.
>
> How to find this yourself:
>
> M-x customize-apropos-faces RET isearch RET
>
> You will see these matches:
>
> Isearch face: (sample) [Show Face]
>     State: HIDDEN, invoke "Show" in the previous line to show.
>     Face for highlighting Isearch matches.
>
> Isearch Fail face: (sample) [Show Face]
>     State: HIDDEN, invoke "Show" in the previous line to show.
>     Face for highlighting failed part in Isearch echo-area message.
>
> Isearch Lazy Highlight Face:(sample) [Show Face]
>     State: HIDDEN, invoke "Show" in the previous line to show.
>     isearch-lazy-highlight-face is an alias for the face `lazy-highlight'. [More]
>
> You can customize any of these from the same buffer (it is a Customize buffer).
> Start by clicking `[Show Face]' (or the small triangle in Emacs 24+).
>
> If you generally use the default Emacs settings, and you think the default
> appearance for face `isearch' should be changed, file an enhancement request for
> that using `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
>
>
thx a lot!

Isearch face: (sample) [Hide Face]
    [State]: SAVED and set.
    Face for highlighting Isearch matches.
Groups: [Isearch] [Basic Faces]
See also [Manual] and [isearch].
Choice: [Value Menu]
  Attributes: [ ] Font Family: *
              [ ] Font Foundry: *
              [ ] Width: *
              [ ] Height: *
              [ ] Weight: *
              [ ] Slant: *
              [ ] Underline: *
              [ ] Overline: *
              [ ] Strike-through: *
              [ ] Box around text: *
              [ ] Inverse-video: *
 >>  *)       [X] Foreground: white      (sample)
              [X] Background: magenta4   (sample)
              [ ] Stipple: *
              [ ] Inherit: *


*) I changed to "white" and emacs wrote to my ~/.emacs:

(custom-set-variables )
(custom-set-faces
  '(isearch ((((class color) (min-colors 8)) (:background "magenta4" 
:foreground "white")))))

BTW: I deleted remarks

But: nothing changed! restarting emacs the same "old" background color 
lightblue (cyan1 ?) appears. And: looking again in 
customize-apropos-faces RET isearch RET   I see

....
[X] Foreground: white      (sample)
....

where "sample" is blue colored! The "white" didn't take effekt. Why?

Eckard