From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burton Samograd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing Terminal (-nw) Base Colors Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:46:22 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358802313 15631 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2013 21:05:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:05:13 +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 22:05:33 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 1TxOYe-00019Q-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:05:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56632 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxOYK-0006Nh-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:05:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: x8k3KC6E0RodHmQi2ZnN7g.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0cGN+RTas6o+AXSCiHjFCUswdS0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196457 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:88751 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: > 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. Yes, it is, but generally I run everything from emacs (include M-x shell) so I honestly didn't really think of that problem. > > 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. Good point. > > 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. I forgot about configuring xterm defaults. That should be exactly what I need. Thanks. -- Burton Samograd