Re: set-background-color changed with emacs 24

[Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>]

On 10/27/2015 5:47 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> (set-background-color "navy")
>>
>> Now, with emacs 24.5.1, the background for text becomes navy, but the
>> background where there is no character is dark red.
>
> Works for me.  But you don't provide a very good description of
> your problem.  Try to provide a step-by-step recipe to reproduce
> the problem, starting from `emacs -Q` (or `emacs -nw`).

I start with "emacs -Q .emacs"

I get what look like default colors.

M-x set-foreground-color green sets the default foreground color to green.

M-x set-background-color navy sets the background text color to navy. 
Where there is no text, it sets the background to dark red.

M-x set-background-color orange -> when there is no text, sets the 
background to blue.

It's like emacs is setting the background color for all unused areas to 
a color that contrasts with the background color for text.

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This is through a vnc window.  However, I've been working like this for 
a long time, previous versions emacs didn't do this, and other 
applications like Firefox render colors correctly.