Re: modeline colors

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
> > Date: 28 Nov 2006 16:00:04 -0500
> > > > If I put this (and only this) in my .emacs:
> > > >
> > > >   (set-face-background 'modeline "red")
> > > >   (set-face-background 'default "blue4")

Isn't mode-line the correct face (note the hyphen)?

> > > > I get a modeline with the default color.  After Emacs has already
> > > > started, evaluating that first line again produces the expected
> > > > result.  Is this some corner case bug?
> > > M-x customize-face RET mode-line
> > This, as expected, does not solve the problem.
>
> You mean, if you customize the mode-line colors as you wish them to
> be, then save the customizations for the future sessions, and restart
> Emacs, the mode line again comes up with default colors?
>
> I can understand why set-face-background doesn't work in your .emacs:
> when Emacs processes those lines, the modeline face does not yet
> exist; you could fix that by, e.g., creating it with make-face.  But
> saving customizations with M-x customize should solve that problem (in
> a different way), so I'm puzzled by ``does not solve the problem''.

But the mode-line face is defined in faces.el, which is dumped into the
emacs executable.

--
Kevin