Re: Changing color of transient mark

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-02-11, at 19:37, Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> wrote:

> I'm running emacs 24.4.1, and the transient mark color is a very dark
> blue. This makes the highlighted text hard to read.
>
> Id like to redefine the background color something like this:
>
>   ((transient-mark-mode 1)
>     (set-background-color "mistyrose")
>     (set-foreground-color "firebrick"))
>
> but of course this does not work. Short of running PC mode, how can I
> change at least the highlighting background color?

See the function `set-face-attribute'.

Hth,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Adam Mickiewicz University