From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs color White on Black setup question Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 21:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337034863 18633 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 22:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:34:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 00:34:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SU3qQ-0004JA-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 00:34:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SU3TM-0000oo-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 18:10:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!l5g2000pbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336624127 9790 127.0.0.1 (10 May 2012 04:28:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 04:28:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l5g2000pbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192413 comp.emacs:102457 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84827 Archived-At: On May 9, 9:13=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: > emacs color setup question. > > normally i start emacs without changing any color theme stuff. Default > is just fine for me. > > but sometimes, i want the background black. The problem is, you can't > simply set background to black, you'll also need to change a bunch of > default text colors. > > is there a simple way to set background to black and other colors > automatically set to readable? > > Note: i rather not install any of those color theme stuff. > This is emacs running GUI on Windows, not in terminal. So, no X11 or > terminal/ANSI color setup involved. Just pure emacs. found my answer. --reverse-video does it. Xah