I would highly recommend you install a package called color-theme. There are dozens of prebuilt color themes available, and you can create your own as well.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme - Chris Sean LeBlanc writes: >By "unix" colors, I mean the default that one gets on at least some >installations of Emacs on *nix...a green background (with yellow fg?). > >Is there configuration code I could copy into my .emacs to do this? I >started down the path of trying to guess what the defaults are and putting >those in my file, but that seems a rather naive way of going about this, >especially if it's already taken care of with a module or someone else >.emacs config. > >Thanks! > >-- >Sean LeBlanc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://sean-leblanc.blogspot.com/ >C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, >but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. >-Bjarne Stroustrup > -- ================================ Chris McMahan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================