Re: Debian emacs -nw and background colour

[Brendan Halpin]

sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch writes:

> I have no idea what causes this effect. But have you tried to define a
> color theme in your .emacs in the following way?
>
> (when (not window-system)
>   (color-theme-emacs-nw)
> )
>
> However, the theme emacs-nw has a grey background. Maybe any other
> theme of the Debian emacs-goodies package is suitable for your
> needs. Or maybe a color definition using the (when (not window-system)
> (...)) command has the wanted effect.

Thanks for the pointer to color-theme and emacs-goodies-el. I
redefined color-theme-emacs-nw to use brightwhite instead of white
and that gives me what I want, though I think I will be tweaking
themes for some time yet!

Brendan
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