Re: emacs configuration

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Jerry A. Covington" <jerry@primefactor.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:10:38 -0500
> 
> I have a simple problem that is driving me to distraction.  I would like to 
> get my personal version of emas to revert to the default background color 
> DarkSlateGrey (which is always a sort of dark green on all of my monitors)
> but I can't seem to locate how to set the default background color in the 
> docs.  (All kinds of other stuff, but not that!).

"emacs -bg DarkSlateGrey" should do it; it's in the manual.  There's
also a way through your ~/.Xdefaults; also in the manual.

> so I am forced to individually set each frame's  background by hand.

This snippet in your .emacs should set things for all frames,
incoluding those you create afterwards:

 (set-face-background 'default "DarkSlateGrey")