what is wrong with my .emacs file

faizlo · 08-09-2009, 05:09 PM

Hi,

I want to have my emacs with a blue background (and I wish it is light blue) and I have tried to make some adjustments to my .emacs file (which I wrote from scratch). First it worked fine as I used one of the color modes given in the emacs-goodies package. I added a line to change the fonts I use (the second line) and the blue background has gone. Here is my .emacs file, and I wish someone can tell me what went wrong:

Code:

;; .emacs

;;(set-default-font "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso8859-1")
(setq default-frame-alist '((font . "-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1")
(modify-frame-parameters nil '((wait-for-wm . nil)))

(require 'color-theme)
(setq color-theme-is-global t)
(color-theme-blue-mood)
(cursor-color . "green")

(user-position . t)
(user-size . t)
(height . 40)
(width . 130)))

;;save everything to a folder
(setq backup-by-copying t ; don't clobber symlinks
backup-directory-alist
'(("." . "~/emacs_backup")) ; don't litter my fs tree
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versionhs 6
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t) ; use versioned backups


;;; uncomment this line to disable loading of "default.el" at startup
;;(setq inhibit-default-init t)

;; turn on font-lock mode
;;(when (fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode)
  ;;(global-font-lock-mode t))

;; enable visual feedback on selections
;;(setq transient-mark-mode t)

Thank you in advance,

faizlo

faizlo · 08-09-2009, 07:43 PM

Hi again,

I could solve my problem. Only one question about background colors. How may I know all the colors names avaiable for me in Emacs? For example, if I want to use this blue color which surrounds our posts here in this forum, what name should I use?

thanks,

faizlo

faizlo · 08-09-2009, 07:50 PM

Hi again,

I found a treasure and I wanted to share it with you. Here is a list of all the colors available for emacs with their codes.

The List

Thanks,

Faizlo