From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: roodwriter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs-looks... Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:02:17 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3e35cc88$0$128$edfadb0f@dtext02.news.tele.dk> Reply-To: roodwriter@core.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043741105 18017 80.91.224.249 (28 Jan 2003 08:05:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:05:05 +0000 (UTC) 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 18dQju-0004gE-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:05:02 +0100 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 18dQkh-0000OX-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:05:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109481 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:6001 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6001 Kenneth Buchwald Johansen wrote: > Hi! > I'm using debian, and when I use apt-get install emacs21, the default > emacs-colors are white and black (black text and white background). I > really don't like that - how do I set emacs to use the 'normal' colors > (green and black)? > Thanks! > - Kenneth I'm using KDE 3.0 and it took the colors I use for the desktop--gray background and white letters, which I use because I can go for long periods of time before my eyes water. It doesn't in Gnome, just black letters on white, which, for me, is like staring into a light after awhile. If you load up Emacs at the command line you can set the colors like this: emacs -fg green -bg black -fg is foreground, -bg is background. -ms is the mouse color, if you want to change that. It's all in the man pages. Hope this helps. --Rod -- To reply by e-mail, take the extra "o" out of my e-mail address. It's to confuse spambots, of course.