From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs and Colors and RedHat Date: 02 May 2003 21:44:06 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051904971 30039 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 19:49:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 21:49:29 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 19BgXB-0007oI-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 21:49:29 +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 19BgYE-0001RG-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 15:50:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1051904646 07 17465 M9HME5QEEJAnwR 030502 19:44:06 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-ID: EwZ3DwZ6geMPqkRmAkMzGomT6kxHYp2XURZmUW+pMUjBHS4a14NeQ- X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112676 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:9170 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9170 "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 have compared lisp file and settings inside emacs from both Slackware > and Redhat, and they both seem identical. I tried compiling a stock > emacs from the source I used to make my Slackware emacs, and it had > colors under Redhat. > > Blue and some kind of purple seem to the favorite color for emacs to > use, and tragically I can't read anything in those colors. This has > made using the help inside emacs especially painful. I tried using > xterm-mono as my TERM, but colors still appear. > > Does *anyone* know how to turn this off so that I can go back to a > readable screen with emacs? Put the following into your ~/.Xresources file: Emacs.Background: white Emacs.Foreground: black -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum