From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How do I avoid purple-on-black and yellow-on-white? Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:26:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r47jybg2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391484396 10046 80.91.229.3 (4 Feb 2014 03:26:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 03:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Trent W. Buck" , emacs development To: Bruce Korb Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 04 04:26:43 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1WAWem-0004c8-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:26:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAWel-0006Po-Ml for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:26:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAWeb-0006Pa-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAWeQ-00032d-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:8965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAWeQ-00032W-BY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:26:18 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLyZ/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kLodwBsEtji6CXAOIYZwZgV6Cais X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLyZ/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kLodwBsEtji6CXAOIYZwZgV6Cais X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="46721679" Original-Received: from 69-196-188-153.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.188.153]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 03 Feb 2014 22:26:17 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D05F660335; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 22:26:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Bruce Korb's message of "Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:41:44 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169376 Archived-At: > 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