From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get consistent emacs background color Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:31:42 -0600 Message-ID: References: <54bd924d-0606-48bd-95cf-c38167245212@g61g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223955148 26305 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2008 03:32:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:32:28 +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 Oct 14 05:33:27 2008 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 4.50) id 1Kpaex-0007Gt-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:33:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpads-0004YV-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpadb-0004YI-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpada-0004Y1-SL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46167 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpada-0004Xy-NO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35557 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpada-0007JD-AC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KpadU-0005Wz-Ef for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:31:52 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:31:52 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:31:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: <54bd924d-0606-48bd-95cf-c38167245212@g61g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:58748 Archived-At: yinglcs@gmail.com wrote: > I have the following line in my .emacs: > > (set-background-color "ivory2") > (set-foreground-color "black") > > initially , the color of emacs is correct. But when I spawn a new > emacs window (C-x 5 2). the background of that emacs is white. Can you > please tell me how can I fix that? (setq default-frame-alist (append default-frame-alist '((background-color . "ivory2") (foreground-color . "black")))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA