Re: Background color in emacs

[Mathias Dahl]

Stefan Bienert <stefanbienert@web.de> writes:


> I'm trying to get emacs in X to the same look as in the console. I
> mean with a black background. But if I use set-background-color, the
> black font in emacs does not turn into white?

You also need to set the foreground color, for example:

 M-x set-foreground-color RET green RET

There is something called `color-theme' that you might want to check
out. It helps you do all that, and more:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme