From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Boettcher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs and Colors and RedHat Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 09:06:49 -0400 Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84smrwrkzw.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052140983 9488 80.91.224.249 (5 May 2003 13:23:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 13:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 15:22:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Cfjr-0001Fq-00 for ; Mon, 05 May 2003 15:10:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Cfk3-00021l-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2003 09:10:51 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!llnews.ll.mit.edu!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S414XDXNwLKFKHBHu+UyWSgm2Lg= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.34.163.111 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@ll.mit.edu Original-X-Trace: llnews.ll.mit.edu 1052140009 155.34.163.111 (Mon, 05 May 2003 09:06:49 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 09:06:49 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112787 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9282 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9282 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > "William D. Colburn (aka Schlake)" writes: > >> At work we are being forced to move from Slackware to Redhat. Aside >> from the fact that backspace and delete stopped working, the biggest >> problem for me is that emacs suddenly has all these colors that make it >> unsuable. > > I apologize for appearing to be dense, but maybe it would help if you > were to describe what's happening in more detail. For example, you > could start describing how you start Emacs, and then you tell us what > you need to do to see unreadable colors. > > And then, maybe a screenshot would be nice. > > Others have tried to exercise their crystal balls, but maybe there > was too much static from the sun this week. My crystal ball tells me that the distribution switch included an upgrade from Emacs < v21 to Emacs == v21, which now supports colorized tty. Where the OP used to have straight white on black, or vice versa, he now has beautiful font-locked color in his xterm. I gather that the beautiful colors are the wrong choice for his xterm color scheme, for instance dark blue on black. I think the OP is asking for the means to disable color completely on TTY, but he might be even happier with a quick way to force reasonable color choices for his (black background?) xterm. Of course, he might be even happier with running Emacs in its native windowing mode, but my crystal ball has run out of steam. -Peter