Re: Changing Terminal (-nw) Base Colors

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Burton Samograd wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I run emacs in -nw mode on a black (-rv) terminal, some of the
> default text colors are very difficult to read, mostly in the blue
> range.  In certain cases I can modify a the individual color value, such
> as in the eshell prompt, but I would like to perform a global
> modification of the 'dark blue' color to be, say, bright yellow.
> 

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> 
> I've heard of but never used 'color themes' for emacs.  Would these
> help solve this problem?

You could try the following colour theme I maintain.  It is designed
with dark backgrounds in mind.

<https://github.com/suvayu/.emacs.d/blob/master/themes/dark-emacs-theme.el>

To use this, set a custom-theme-directory and put the theme file there.
Then load the theme with `M-x load-theme RET'.  If you like it you can
add the hash to the custom-safe-themes list.  A note, you need Emacs 24
for this theme to work.

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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