Re: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard one.

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Alexandre Schenberg <ale.schenberg@gmail.com> writes:

>>> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org
>>> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Alexandre Schenberg
>>> Sent: Thursday, 2012 July 12 20:19
>>> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>> Subject: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard
>>> one.
>>>
>>> As the title says, when I executes emacs as root, it uses colors
>>> different when compared with it running with the privileges of a
>>> regular user.
>>> So I would like to know where these colors settings might be stored,
>>> so that I can copy then to use as a regular user.
>>> P.S:  There isn't a .emacs file under root

Then why don't you create it?

>>> P.S2: Only when running emacs directly as root it uses the mentioned
>>> colors, when I use "su" it uses the standard colors.

Put that:

    (when (= (user-uid) 0)
      (set-background-color "red")
      (set-foreground-color "black"))

both in your ~/.emacs and in root's.

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