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?

  • Trent
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    1 day ago

    With a quick test, this works for me…

    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :foreground “yellow”)

    • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 day ago

      I can’t get it to accept the ‘attribute’ part.

      set-face-foreground 'default “white” changed the text in the edit area to white, but had no effect on the text described above.

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        1 day ago

        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.

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          23 hours ago

          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”)