Re: [h-e-w] Configuring for Unix colors

[Jason Rumney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:58:41 -0600
> > From: Sean LeBlanc <address@hidden>
> >
> > By "unix" colors, I mean the default that one gets on at least some
> > installations of Emacs on *nix...a green background (with yellow fg?).
> >     
>
> That's not the default, that's what the sysadmins on that system or
> the maintainers of the Emacs binary package for that system forced
> Emacs to do, probably in site-init.el.
>   

I think RedHat does that to root's emacs sessions, so the user can 
easily tell that they are editing as root and should take more care than 
usual.