From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing Terminal (-nw) Base Colors Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:24:54 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358792716 21767 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2013 18:25:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:25:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 19:25:35 2013 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 1TxM3l-0002xP-Oz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:25:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxM3U-0000dS-5A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:25:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7e6ac87e7b6e436b7ebfebc05199ad83"; logging-data="4372"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mGZ11nUCPL6w/ZfXVGM2ImVBpYLKCTWU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i5Pe5rWEfy+otlabsBruGE4S0h4= sha1:oOdazOYJjoNQbZE+stMo0YAl6fc= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196450 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:88744 Archived-At: Burton Samograd writes: > Hello, > > When I run emacs in -nw mode on a black (-rv) terminal, some of the > default text colors are very difficult to read, mostly in the blue > range. In certain cases I can modify a the individual color value, such > as in the eshell prompt, but I would like to perform a global > modification of the 'dark blue' color to be, say, bright yellow. > > I build emacs from sources so if this has to be done in the C sources I > am fine with that. I've tried (briefly) looking for a table mapping these > colors to curses colors but have had no luck. Of course, doing the > remapping from elisp would be even better. > > I've heard of but never used 'color themes' for emacs. Would these > help solve this problem? If blue is unreadable in your terminal under Emacs, then it's also unreadable when you do a color ls from the command line. The point is, there are more programs than Emacs that use color in a terminal window. I suggest you fix the colors, not change Emacs. If you're running xterm/rxvt there are x resources you can use: !XTerm*color4: Blue XTerm*color4: cornflowerBlue you may want to change color12 to turquoise. I know I did. -- Dan Espen