Color of new window C-x 5 2?

Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Does anyone know how to use (set-foreground-color) commands when the new
window is created?  At the moment, these settings do not effect the new
window created with C-x 5 2.  Thank you

Re: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Stephen Berman]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:33:16 -0400 Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to use (set-foreground-color) commands when the new
> window is created?  At the moment, these settings do not effect the new
> window created with C-x 5 2.  Thank you

Since set-foreground-color only affects the selected frame, you could do this:

(dolist (f (frame-list))
  (select-frame f)
  (set-foreground-color "green"))

Steve Berman

RE: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Drew Adams]

> Does anyone know how to use (set-foreground-color) commands when the new
> window is created?  At the moment, these settings do not effect the new
> window created with C-x 5 2.

If you use library `frame-cmds.el', and
you bind `C-x 5 2' to command `clone-frame', 
then you can customize option
`clone-frame-parameters' to include frame
parameter `background-color' with the color
you want.  For example, this uses a light
blue background:

((background-color . "LightBlue"))

`frame-cmds.el' requires `frame-fns.el'.
Both are on Emacs Wiki's Elisp Area:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/frame-cmds.el
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/frame-fns.el

Re: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:33:16 -0400
> 
> Does anyone know how to use (set-foreground-color) commands when the new
> window is created?

Did you try to change default-frame-parameters?

RE: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Drew Adams]

> Did you try to change default-frame-parameters?

I meant to mention that `clone-frame', as
opposed to `make-frame', lets you, in effect,
have two different sets of frame parameters
for `C-x 5 2': `default-frame-alist' and
`clone-frame-parameters': If you use a prefix
arg with `clone-frame' then it just uses the
`default-frame-alist' parameters.

That's the purpose of `clone-frame'.  You
don't need to redefine `default-frame-alist',
which affects all frames; you can use a
different set of parameters when you make a
new frame.  (And you can auto-select the new
frame.)

---

clone-frame is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
'frame-cmds.el'.

It is bound to C-x 5 2, menu-bar frames make-frame.

(clone-frame &optional FRAME NO-CLONE)

Make and select a new frame with the same parameters as FRAME.
With a prefix arg, don't clone - just call 'make-frame-command'.
Return the new frame.

FRAME defaults to the selected frame.  The frame is created on the
same terminal as FRAME.  If the terminal is a text-only terminal then
also select the new frame.

Re: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Not yet.  How should I use default-frame-parameters?

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:28 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:33:16 -0400
> >
> > Does anyone know how to use (set-foreground-color) commands when the new
> > window is created?
>
> Did you try to change default-frame-parameters?
>
>

Re: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:52:45 -0400, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> said:

    Nicholas> Not yet.  How should I use default-frame-parameters?

I think Eli meant default-frame-alist.

Put something like

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "green"))

in your .emacs file. Although this is the equivalent of customizing
the colour of the default face to "green".

Robert

Re: Color of new window C-x 5 2?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:37:50 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:52:45 -0400, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> said:
> 
>     Nicholas> Not yet.  How should I use default-frame-parameters?
> 
> I think Eli meant default-frame-alist.

Yes, sorry.  Too many twisty little passages, all alike.