Re: colors

[Kai Großjohann]

Matthew Low <cs164-cx@star.CS.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> How can I change the font coloring and the background coloring? In
> particular I want to change the background color (currently a
> _bright_ gray) to something more like black,

Customize the "default" face.  M-x customize-face RET default RET.
Don't forget to save your changes ;-)

> and the font colors to reflect the syntax of any particular
> programming language (but for the moment Java).

What does this mean?  Do you mean you want to turn on syntax
highlighting?  M-x customize-group RET font-lock RET, turn on the
global font lock mode option (and save...).

Do you mean you have syntax highlighting already, but it doesn't have
the right colors?  Do M-x list-faces-display RET and search the face
to change by looking both for appearance and name.  (I bet you can
guess what font-lock-comment-face is for.)  Then invoke M-x
customize-face RET on that face.

Or just do M-x customize-face RET RET to customize all faces at once.

Or do you mean that you have done all this, but the highlighting is
still not to your liking?
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