set-background-color changed with emacs 24

set-background-color changed with emacs 24

[Ken Goldman]

I have in .emacs (since forever)

(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.

Is there a new way to set the background color?  Is there some new 
background attribute for when there is no character?

RE: set-background-color changed with emacs 24

[Drew Adams]

> (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`).

Re: set-background-color changed with emacs 24

[Ken Goldman]

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.

~~

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.

Re: set-background-color changed with emacs 24

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:22:21 -0400
> 
> 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.

I cannot reproduce this.  It's something specific to your system, I
think.