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Re: Background color in terminal


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Background color in terminal
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 06:11:11 +0300

> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 01:22:39 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> >> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:48:29 +0100
> >> 
> >> It seems Emacs is assuming background types (dark or light) according
> >> to terminal types.
> >
> > Only on character (i.e. text-mode) terminals, since there's no
> > standard API to query them for their default background color.
> >
> >> Now I have one terminal screen-256color. Emacs thinks it is dark
> >> background when it is actually light background. How can I correct
> >> this?
> >
> > I think you want to customize the variable frame-background-mode,
> > which see.
> 
> Can I make Emacs automatically examine the brightness? 

Like I said above: we don't know about any standard API to do that on
a tty.  If you do, please tell Emacs developers about such an API.




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