Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-19 Thread Glyn Millington
Tom Montroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the same problem with or without a .emacs file in my home directory. Well something is interfering here! On what kind of system are you doing this? Stand-alone PC or as part of a site network? What happens if you do emacs21 -vanilla ? If

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Sacha Chua
Tom Montroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried various colors for the emacs*Foreground variable > (which according to the man page should change the color of hte text). You might also want to M-x customize-group RET faces RET, and take a look at the stuff in the Basic Faces subgroup as well

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Montroy
I get the same problem with or without a .emacs file in my home directory. On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Michael Wardle wrote: > On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:07, Tom Montroy wrote: > > I don't think this is an .Xresource problem, but maybe some default > > thing is weird. I have 2 computers which h

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:07, Tom Montroy wrote: > I don't think this is an .Xresource problem, but maybe some default > thing is weird. I have 2 computers which have this same issue. Perhaps you could post your Emacs configuration file (~/.emacs). -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Montroy
hi Michael, > > What color is the area where there is no text? Is it gray > (DarkSlateGray)? Is it possible that you're just setting the wrong > resource? > > The area without text is the right color. I even tried emacs -bg Blue -fg Green (from the command line) This gives a Blue backgr

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:09, Tom Montroy wrote: > I been having a bit of a problem with changing the text colors > in emacs. I've tried using .Xdefaults and .Xresources files. > > My emacs customization looks like this > > emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray > emacs*Foreground: Wheat > emacs*

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:09, Tom Montroy wrote: > My emacs customization looks like this > > emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray > emacs*Foreground: Wheat > emacs*pointerColor: Orchid > emacs*cursorColor: Orchid > emacs*bitmapIcon: on > emacs*font: fixed > emacs.geometry: 80x25 > > I've tried

Re: emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:09, Tom Montroy wrote: > I been having a bit of a problem with changing the text colors > in emacs. I've tried using .Xdefaults and .Xresources files. Have you ensured that your settings in .Xresources are in fact being loaded? I think the command to try is: $

emacs color problem

2003-02-18 Thread Tom Montroy
hello, I been having a bit of a problem with changing the text colors in emacs. I've tried using .Xdefaults and .Xresources files. My emacs customization looks like this emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray emacs*Foreground: Wheat emacs*pointerColor: Orchid emacs*cursorColor: Orchid emacs*bitmapIc