Thanks- that did it! The face was font-lock-type-face-- I did not know
that matlab.el uses a generic face for operators rather than defining
its own.
"Save for future sessions" even intelligently updated my .emacs, which
was lovely.
Thanks!
On 8/16/2013 3:20 PM, Hunter McClelland wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
>
> I am just now learning emacs foo, but here is my suggestion:
>
> The key word/idea you need is "face". The "face" of the text
> determines how it is displayed (color, underline, size, style, etc).
> What you need to do is indentify which face(s) are hard for you to
> see, and then change them to something that suits you. Try this:
>
> In Matlab mode, run the command: M-x list-faces-display. This brings
> up a comprehensive list of all defined faces, and shows example text
> of each.
>
> Find the offending face(s), and then customize the color to suit you
> (for instance, change to light blue). I recommend left-click
> (mouse-1) on the face name, which brings up a very nice customization
> menu. Change the property as desired, then make sure to set either
> for current session or for future session.
>
> Hope this works!
> -Hunter
>
> P.S. You may encounter "inheritance." If the color is "inherited"
> then simply change the color of the parent face (to change them both)
> or disable the inheritance and give it it's own original
> (un-inherited) color.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Brandon Kuczenski
> <bran...@301south.net <mailto:bran...@301south.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I use emacs with a black background and the dark blue operators
> are very
> difficult to see.
>
> Is there an easy way to change the color?
>
> I am using version 3.3.1 from CVS. I'm a bit of a lisp novice- and my
> cursory attempts to comb through the 6k lines of matlab.el were
> unsuccessful.
>
> Thanks in advance-
> Brandon
>
>
>
>
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