Subject: Re: emacs config problem, video help
From: Brian Waite (bwaite@cspi.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 07:52:10 MDT
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 04:57 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just installed ydl2.0 and am configuring the system. A problem I am
> having that hasn't appeared on the the list (AFAICT) is that emacs seems to
> resist changing the fore/background colors. The default is black
> foreground
> and white background. I usually like to reverse this. However, when I
> give
> the command:
>
> emacs -fg white -bg black
>
> I get an emacs such that everywhere there are characters, it is black fg on
> white bg, and everywhere there are no characters, just a black bg.
> Needless
> to say, this is really ugly:-)
>
> Has something changed in emacs since I ran it with ydl1.2? Is there
> something else causing this, maybe?
>
It took we a while to work this one out put the following lines in your
~/.emacs file:
(set-face-foreground 'default "white")
(set-face-background 'default "black")
You can also use from within emacs, but you have to re set it everytime
M-x set-face-foreground <color>
M-x set-face-background <color>
-- Thanks Brian
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