Re: turning colors off

[Bastien Guerry]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

> Rich Pixley <rich.pixley@palm.com> writes:
>
>> I'm having a lot of trouble with recent versions of emacs which try to
>> use color as a means of syntax highlighting.  I'm sure many people
>> must like this, but I find them illegible mostly due to contrast
>> issues.
>>
>> Is there some way I can shut this off globally?
>
> Yes, as Drew already mentioned.  However, if you'd like different colors
> you can customize the faces, 

Yes.  Put the cursor on the fontified text which face you would like to
change and M-x customize-face RET.  The prompt will offer you the face
at point as the default face to edit.  Very handy.

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Bastien