From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:59:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k4ltivfv.fsf@mail.tbulka.de> <83wrptrtjk.fsf@garydjones.name> <83hbgxnjzh.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6a97xus.fsf@garydjones.name> <83aamooo96.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287565582 18317 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 09:06:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:06:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 20 11:06:18 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8Ucg-0004pi-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:06:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51650 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8Ucf-0002gY-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:06:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55382 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8UWg-00006O-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UWX-000684-I5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UWX-000676-Cd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:59:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UWW-0003CU-1m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:59:52 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:59:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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 X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-11-03 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75168 Archived-At: I wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> From: "Gary" >>> I would also like my graphical emacs to have a black bg). >> >> Does it help to add the following two lines to your ~/.emacs for the >> GUI session? >> >> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black")) >> (add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(background-color . "black")) ... > What I seem to effectively get is black text on a black > background. Example: http://i.imgur.com/RwAk4.jpg The top part of the image is what some PHP code looks like, which clearly isn't right (the bottom part shows selection and reveals the "missing" parts of the code). It's kind of hard to write code while it's like this... :P Additionally, the minibuffer text is also black on black. So it's not even easy to customise the faces...