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Re: How does Emacs know the background color?
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John Rabkin |
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Re: How does Emacs know the background color? |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:16:38 +0200 |
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Pan/0.13.0 (The whole remains beautiful) |
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:10:38 +0000, Michael Herman wrote:
> I am using a special mode for handling e-mail called post.el. In post.el
> there are different faces depending on the background being 'light' or
> 'dark'. When I launch emacs -nw from within an xterm with a white
> background, emacs uses the face for a dark background.
>
> How does emacs determine what the background is?
>
> When I use -rv for the xterm, emacs still thinks the background is dark.
>
> On a sort of related note, is there a way to tell how emacs was launched
> from the command line? I'd like to modify my .emacs to change settings
> depending on whether I used emacs -nw or not.
>
> Thanks.
I'm a newbie myself. The first thing I ever wrote (2 weeks ago) in elisp was:
(defun reversed_colors ()
"Sets the background to black and the foreground to white"
(set-background-color "black")
(set-foreground-color "white")
)
(if (equal window-system 'x)
(reversed_colors)
)
It's in my ~/.emacs file and works fine.
> How does emacs determine what the background is?
Try evaluating (set-background-color "black")
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Regards, Yoni Rabkin