Editing Emacs colors?

ljr2600 · 09-16-2004, 08:42 PM

I'm quiet stumped. I do not have a .Xdefaults file in my home directory. And when I modify the .Xdefults in /root, nothing happens.

All I want to do is modify the background and foreground colors of emacs!

I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE, if it helps at all.

320mb · 09-16-2004, 09:07 PM

man emacs

ljr2600 · 09-16-2004, 11:05 PM

Thanks for the reply, but is there any way for it to automatically open with a specific background and foreground every time, with out typing -bg (color) fg(color), basically change the default colors.

jrg · 09-17-2004, 04:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ljr2600
Thanks for the reply, but is there any way for it to automatically open with a specific background and foreground every time, with out typing -bg (color) fg(color), basically change the default colors.

In XEmacs (I think GNU Emacs is similar) click on Options -> Edit faces... Edit the properties of the "default" face and then save your changes by right-clicking on the "[State]" keyword.

slackie1000 · 09-18-2004, 06:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ljr2600
Thanks for the reply, but is there any way for it to automatically open with a specific background and foreground every time, with out typing -bg (color) fg(color), basically change the default colors.

hi there,

you can add something like that to your .emacs file.

Code:

(set-background-color "black")
(set-foregroung-color  "white)

this will make the things automatic.

regards

slackie1000