From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs and Colors and RedHat Date: 02 May 2003 22:24:16 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030502195758.GA4548@nmt.edu> Reply-To: dak@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051916193 12545 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 22:56:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 22:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 00:56:31 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 19BjSB-0003G2-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 00:56:31 +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 19BjSG-0005ca-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:56:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BjRt-0004sr-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BjRe-0004O4-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BjR6-0003hY-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 18:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19BjR1-0005Yk-01; Sat, 03 May 2003 00:55:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (520018396234-0001@[62.226.11.227]) by fwd09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19BjQu-0qSDQWC; Sat, 3 May 2003 00:55:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h42KOIrr002431; Fri, 2 May 2003 22:24:58 +0200 Original-Received: (from dak@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h42KOHKY002427; Fri, 2 May 2003 22:24:17 +0200 Original-To: "William D. Colburn (aka Schlake)" In-Reply-To: <20030502195758.GA4548@nmt.edu> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net 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:9187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9187 "William D. Colburn (aka Schlake)" writes: > Uh, no, didn't help. Any emacs with -nw still has weird colors in it. > > On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:44:06PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > >> 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 With -nw, that's a different matter. Then Emacs inherits its colors from the xterm it is running in. Unless it is overriden elsewhere. What do you get for trying emacs -nw -q -no-site-file Is this different? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum