On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28/02/10 03:00 AM, Tim Visher wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
wrote:
I was trying to customise the font face to make everything more
visible. Usually I use Emacs with a GUI but quite often I need to use
no-window. The default face for the minibuffer-prompt is medium blue
in no-window which makes it very difficult for me to see. I however
like the defaults when using the GUI.
Is there some way I could keep the defaults when using GUI and set it
to something more readable when using no-window?
I can't remember if it's built in or not but `C-h f emacs-type RET`.
Its not. But I found the library:
http://malsyned.net/repos/dotemacs/site-lisp/emacs-type.el
You can then key off of that like so:
(defun emacs-is-windowed ()
"Returns non-nil if Emacs is running in Windowed mode."
(string-match "window" (emacs-type)))
It returns a symbol, so I had to modify it like this:
(require 'emacs-type)
(defun emacs-is-windowed ()
"Returns non-nil if Emacs is running in Windowed mode."
(string-match "window" (symbol-name (emacs-type))))
(if (emacs-is-windowed)
(progn (set-face-background 'default "black")
(set-face-foreground 'default "white")))
That's interesting. The file I got from I not where returned strings.
If you don't mind doing the conversion then you're more than welcome
to but you could download the version I use from my [GitHub
page](http://github.com/timvisher/.emacs/blob/master/site-lisp/emacs-type.el)
if you so desired. Again, I had to override it like
[so](http://github.com/timvisher/.emacs/blob/master/lisp/platform-detection.el)
in order to correctly detect Macs.
Now should I be putting above block in a hook? Or is there a better way to
implement this? If using a hook is the proper solution, which should I be
using? Something like find-file-hook is definitely inappropriate as
we can easily have buffers associated with no files (my lisp abilities
are limited at best). :(
If I were you I'd put it in my .emacs file. That way it gets
evaluated for everything in the life of that emacs process. This
works for me at least. Here's a [very simple example of how I use
it](http://github.com/timvisher/.emacs/blob/master/lisp/my-config.el#L33).