On 23 Aug 2001 11:27:21 +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote: > When I started Emacs for the first time on my machine and got a window > with gray background and yellow foreground I thought of a Vi user > conspiracy. But then I discovered that the Vim colour settings in > /etc/X11/Xresources are also very strange :-) > > When the background is dark and the foreground is light and syntax > highlighting is enabled it's almost impossible to read anything. > > Does anyone really use the Emacs colour settings provided by Mandrake? > > In my opinion the Emacs colour settings should be removed from > /etc/X11/Xresources and the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/Emacs should be > deleted since the default colour scheme is much better. > > I'm using the default colour scheme with the following addition, that > changes the menus' background colour into a light grey: > > Emacs*menubar*background: grey82 > Emacs*menu*background: grey82 > I do exactly what is already using on fresh install, I assume mdk colour settings. These are beautiful (as can be), with pretty forest green bg and yellow fg.
