I deleted every .plist file in ~/Library/Preferences with "emacs" in its
name, including org.gnu.emacs.plist, org.gnu.AquamacsEmacs.plist, and
Emacs.plist. Now Emacs.app pays attention to which settings I use in my
.emacs for background and font colors.
Gil
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Gilbert Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I started using Emacs.app, I had the following in my .emacs
> in order to use light fonts on a black background.
>
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "lightyellow"))
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(cursor-color . "Yellow3"))
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
> '(background-color . "black"))
> (set-face-background 'region "rgb:8/6/5")
> (set-face-foreground 'region "lightyellow")
> (set-face-foreground 'modeline "lightgoldenrod")
> (set-face-background 'modeline "gray21")
> (set-face-foreground 'highlight "lightyellow")
> (set-face-background 'highlight "yellow4")
> (set-face-foreground 'bold "white")
> (set-face-foreground 'italic "tan1")
>
> But sometimes I want to start up with a default white background,
> because of background lighting, for example.
>
> I do not know how to do it with current Emacs.app. It does not help
> to remove the above commands from my .emacs.
>
> At this point, even Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -q still results
> in black backgrounds to all frames.
>
> I would like to have a simple toggle in my .emacs that would give me a
> black background as above if I toggle things one way and would give
> me a default white background if I toggle things the other way.
>
> This is very easy in Carbon Emacs, by changing one line in my .emacs
> in order to load a .el file with the above commands or not load that file.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Gil
>
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