Updates - Formatting, one more small information.
I have been hunting documentation and trying things in my .emacs file for 2 days now…
The type of message that appears at the bottom of the screen, one example is “Save the file <filespec>? (y,n,! …” On my system it is dark blue on black. Also “Modified buffers exist…” dark blue on black - hard to read. What face is that?
Here is what I have tried so far:
(custom-set-faces
'(mode-line ((t (:foreground "white" :background "blue" :weight bold))))
'(warning ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
'(error ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
'(success ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
'(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black"))))
'(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
'(shadow ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
'(completions-common-part ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
'(completions-first-difference ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
'(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black"))))
)
describe-face for another prompt with the same coloring says it is the default face. So I tried changing that from the M-x prompt but that turned my screen white on yellow.
The mode-line line works - my active mode line is white on blue.
Does it matter that I am running emacs in a tty instead of the GUI version?
Bah, I misread stuff. Long day. I just tested in my terminal and
(set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt "cyan")
changed the save-file prompt messages.Ok, Now my entire ~.emacs file is:
(set-face-foreground 'mode-line “white”) (set-face-background 'mode-line “blue”) (set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt “cyan”)