On 2008-08-25 21:49 +0200, Claus Fischer wrote: > When calling emacs in my root xterm which has no X authority > and has a light-red background, emacs will display some portions > of config files in colors that are virtually unreadable.
I would not recommend to run Emacs as root at all. There are better methods like sudoedit or Tramp if you want to edit a system file. > While my choice of background color is entirely my own fault, > color-terminal programs should generally set background and > foreground color together. I'm not convinced that this is true, especially not for text editors. IMHO they should respect the user's decision for these colors. Anyway, you can use the -bg and -fg command line options to change them. > Otherwise the default color palette > will look wonderful in the Emacs developer's xterm but will > give some users a hard time. True; the emacs-goodies-el package contains a wonderful add-on named emacs-color-themes which may contain a scheme suitable to red background colors. > Alternatively, color highlighting could be switched off completely > in nonwindow mode. That's your call, if you prefer that. Put (unless window-system (global-font-lock-mode 0)) into your .emacs to achieve it. But most people will be happy that font-lock is on by default. Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]