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Hi, I was unable to find any understandable explanation of how to do 
this. I did find mention (I think in the int file docs) of using an 
alist  for features in your .emacs file, such as (feature . value).
But I could find no explanation at all on what the this means, how to do 
it, how to use it, an example of the syntax, etc etc etc.  Although I 
searched the docs for hours. Do I sound frustrated?

How do set preferences in emacs so windows open with the colors I want? 
I don't want to have to M-x set-foreground-color and M-x 
set-background-color every time I open a window, I'm sure there has to 
be a way to set defaults like this.

If you know how to do it, can you please provide an example. 

Thanks
Jim