Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Emacs colours [RE: GNU emacs 21.2-5 packages available] Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:39:21 -0400 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3D610319.2070504@hekimian.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029767893 9613 206.205.138.10 (19 Aug 2002 14:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:38:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote: >>- black on black is no longer the default color scheme > I can see why this is necessary for emacs running in a "DOS box", but is > ugly and should not be necessary when displayed in a rxvt or xterm window, > or when using the X11 interface. I know I can change this back (I haven't > found out how, but I'm sure a little investigation will find it: emacs -r > isn't enough), but it would be cleanest to keep similar defaults as all > other versions (not least because I have a common .emacs). > > Could I suggest that the reverse colours only be the default for the non-X11 > interface, when run in a DOS box ($TERM=cygwin, I think)? You can change site-init.el if you don't like the current scheme. It's a hack until I figure out what emacs is doing wrong, so it will revert to proper colors once I track it down. > One other minor point, is that I've noticed that describe-function doesn't > always work, where it does in NT and RH7.2 Emacs 21.2, eg. This looks like an emacs install bug -- the DOC file is made but not installed. I'll look at it. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/