Re: set-background-color on the console

[Alex Schroeder]

eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> 
>> On the Linux console, M-x set-background-color has no effect.  In my
>> case, the background color is currently green and I want to set it to
>> black.  (set-background-color "black") ought to do the trick, I
>> believe.  If set-background-color is not supposed to work on a tty,
>> then this should be mentionend in the doc string.
> 
> Thanks; it's a bug.  Please try the changes below.  Andrew, could you 
> please see if this is okay on Windows under -nw?  I'd like to install 
> this in the RC branch, so I don't want to break anything.
> 
> Alex, please note that you need to recompile frame.el and rebuild Emacs 
> after applying the patch, since frame.elc is preloaded.

Thanks for working on this, Eli.  Unfortunately it doesn't do
anything.

* patched the file in /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1/lisp
* make distclean in /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1
* ./configure
* make
* used /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1/src/emacs -q and
  /usr/local/src/emacs-21.1/src/emacs -q -nw in xterm
* tried M-x set-background-color RET red RET

No effect.

Shall I move all the normal Emacs 21 files out of the way before
running Emacs from the src dir?  I think that should not be necessary,
though.

Alex.
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