I use xterm and set its appearance in ~/.Xdefaults
:
XTerm*background: paleTurquoise
XTerm*foreground: black
I also use emacs, but set its appearance differently in ~/.emacs
:
(set-background-color "black")
(set-foreground-color "yellow")
I usually run emacs within the terminal emulator with emacs -nw
, rather than creating a separate X window. For some reason, this doesn't work properly for emacs23; instead, emacs retains the pale turquoise background of my xterm window. Looking at what's new in emacs23, I noted that:
** When running in a new enough xterm (newer than version 242), Emacs asks xterm what the background color is and it sets up faces accordingly for a dark background if needed (the current default is to consider the background light).
So it's a feature, not a bug? Anyway, is there some way that I can I tell emacs23 to ignore the xterm background settings when running in console mode, and use the settings in ~/.emacs
instead?
I'll also note that:
- It works fine in emacs23 running in a separate X window (without the
-nw
option). - It worked fine in emacs22; and I'm not really sure whether I need to use emacs23...
- Running
M-x set-background-color
withinemacs23 -nw
has no effect. - It's not just xterm: the same problem exists with
$TERM=cygwin
, for example.
UPDATE: the best answer seems to be to use the -fg
and -bg
command-line options...