On 2008-08-25 21:06 +0200, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Claus Fischer wrote: >> 3. Emacs >> ******** >> >> a) Colors >> Emacs now apparently also uses colors when running in an xterm. >> However, it doesn't set the background color. That makes for >> some particularly unreadable > > Is this in spite of the presence of (set-background-color "...") and > (set-foreground-color "...") present in the .emacs, or have you let > Emacs guess automatically? It is my assumption that those who would > want uniform Emacs colours irrespective of terminals would set these.
Apparently set-background-color and set-foreground-color have no effect in text-only terminals. And AFAIK Emacs uses the TERM environment variable to determine whether it should use dark or bright colors for font-locking. This is also a problem when you use Emacs in putty, which sets TERM=xterm but uses a black background by default. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
