From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: modeline colors in emacs 24.2.1 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:24:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <50BF1D5E.7080701@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354721091 16356 80.91.229.3 (5 Dec 2012 15:24:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 15:24:51 +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 Dec 05 16:25:04 2012 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 1TgGqH-0001PZ-UJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:24:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45724 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgGq5-00044M-L9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgGq0-00044F-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:24:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgGpu-0000v8-K1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgGpu-0000up-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:24:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TgGq0-0000w7-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:24:41 +0100 Original-Received: from yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com ([129.34.20.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:24:40 +0100 Original-Received: from kgoldman by yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:24:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yktgi01e0-s4.watson.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <50BF1D5E.7080701@pobox.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:88051 Archived-At: On 12/5/2012 5:09 AM, Bernardo wrote: > It was a dark and stormy night when Ken Goldman said (05/12/12 06:17): >> I just installed emacs 24.2.1 (on Windows 7 if that matters) and am >> going through the usual task of porting my .emacs. >> >> I notice that the modeline seems to be reversed. That is, what used >> to be the foreground is now the background and vice versa. The text >> is appearing in the background color. Is this a known change? It >> seems odd. >> > > i use half a dozen (mostly MS Windows, mostly under Remote Desktop) PCs > at work, and have seen foreground/background modeline colours swapped -- > on *some* of them; they all use almost identical .emacs; this "feature" > has been around for a while (probably since version 22.x) if indeed it > is an Emacs feature and not a configuration problem; > > i've never had a closer look and just used a manually set variable in > .emacs to swap the modeline colours Yes, that was it. When I view it locally, the mode line colors are correct. When I use Remote Desktop Connection, they are reversed. The local machine is XP. The remote machines are XP/emacs 22 and Win7/emacs 24. Is this a bug that should be reported? Is there a work around? I have a fast connection, and the colors can be displayed when I edit .emacs.