From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>,
emacs development <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How do I avoid purple-on-black and yellow-on-white?
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:26:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjm7lftx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKRnqNL_HhHcdup_rFqg9f4nsRf8rUezS_fEEs_WHbOeD10YAg@mail.gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:41:44 -0800")
> I bumped into dark purple on black and the result could not be read
> (without highlighting the text, and even then it was not easy.)
Normally the solution (as has already been pointed out) is to explain to
Emacs that your background is dark (which is something that it sadly
can't determine on its own in this case, AFAIK).
Have you tried it?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-04 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-03 1:52 How do I avoid purple-on-black and yellow-on-white? Barry OReilly
2014-02-04 0:21 ` Trent W. Buck
2014-02-04 0:41 ` Bruce Korb
2014-02-04 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-07 19:54 ` Juri Linkov
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2014-02-04 2:53 Barry OReilly
2014-02-02 21:36 Bruce Korb
2014-02-02 23:47 ` Trent W. Buck
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