Bob Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>> In emacs 21.3 under Win32 I get a 1-character wide black border on >>> the left and right sides of the window. (The arrows indicating a >>> wrapped or long line appear in this area.) How do I control the >>> color of this area? >> >> M-x customize-face RET fringe RET. > > So, that area is called "fringe". Now I can set the color. > It's not just in mythology that knowing a things true name gives you > power over it. Thanks.
Indeed, that is how it works in Emacs too. :-) Seriously, I can't think of a good way to find this out on your own. I don't blame you for asking; the name is far from obvious. > I thought I wanted to match the fringe and default background > colors, but now that I've played with it a little bit, I think I'll > try slightly different colors to give a subtle boundary. Black next > to blue made a jarring boundary. Yes, I also like to have them differ slightly in color. Although, on second thought... red fringes on a white background might just make Emacs look like a flashy striped sports car. Well, that, or it might just be damn ugly. >>> I thought it might be something like (setq border-color "red"), >>> but this doesn't change the display at all. >> >> Haha, you just made a wild guess? > > No, apropos RET border RET told me that there was something called > border- color, but looking again, I see it's not a variable so setq > doesn't make sense. There was some method to my flailing. Ah, I see. You did make an honest try, then. :-) -- Daniel Brockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
