Re: default bg color on ttys

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Robert J. Chassell wrote:

> Appropriate, and easily remembered, command-line options will be
> annoying but useful.  So will easily remembered expressions that can
> be written into an ad hoc .emacs file, like `(blink-cursor-mode 0)'
> for Emacs 21.

Would the following be an okay solution?

   (set-background-mode 'dark)

(This would require to write the function set-background-mode, but all 
the necessary infrastructure is already in place.)