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Re: Can you change default emacs colors?
From: |
Daireus Mann |
Subject: |
Re: Can you change default emacs colors? |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:54:20 -0700 |
Ok, never mind. I found the .emacs file and put it in there and everything
works great.
Thanks for the help!
"Ola Nilsson" <sds024five1@sydpost.remove.nu> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> "Daireus Mann" <dcmann@cox.net> writes:
> > Hi,
> > I just started using Linux and emacs and i was wondering if there was
anyway
> > to change the default color scheme. I am using red hat 9 and what ever
emacs
> > comes with that. I want to change the backround to black and the black
text
> > white, everything else can stay the same.
> > Thanks!
>
> Try something like this in your emacs:
>
> ;;setup colors
> (set-background-color "black")
> (set-foreground-color "white")
>
> (setq default-frame-alist
> '((width . 120)
> (height . 69)
> (background-color . "black")
> (foreground-color . "white")
> ;; (font . "-*-Courier New-normal-r-*-*-11-82-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")))
> ))
>
> I don't think you need both, but I use one (the top) for my none-X
(emacs -nw)
> emacses, and the bottom one for my X emacses.
>
> In the default-frame-alist you can also see a way of setting the default
frame
> size and an, out commented, way of selecting a font.
>
> Does anyone know where you find a list of possible color choices? These
where
> rewritten with black/white, I normally use "lemon chiffon" and
"DodgerBlue4",
> but I don't know all the options.
>
> Regards,
> --
> /Ola Nilsson