Re: unreadable color: how to change lisp comment color (and find its font face)?

[Markus Dehmann]

On Dec 13, 11:21 am, Tom Rauchenwald <its....@gmx.net> wrote:
> Markus Dehmann <markus.dehm...@gmail.com> writes:
> > I use color-theme, and I like color-theme-xp (sorry!). However, there
> > is one disturbing thing about it: It shows lisp comments (e.g. in
> > my .emacs) in the same color as the background! How can I change that?
>
> > I know I can do M-x color-theme-print and it prints the function for
> > the color theme, which I can modify. But I don't know what font-face
> > is used by lisp comments, so I can't change its appearance.
>
> > How can I find out what font-face is used by lisp comments so I can
> > change its color?
>
> In emacs22 just put point where the comment is, and invoke M-x
> describe-face.
> Looks like font-lock-comment-face is what you are looking for.
>

Thanks all!

Yes, changing font-lock-comment does the trick. M-x describe-face
doesn't work for me, but that's probably because I have an old emacs
version (21.3.1).

Markus