From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17440 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: color of transient-mark-mode Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:07:36 +1100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <87egpugx93.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <87bnl01gnk.fsf@engels.histomat.net> <87iof7cdco.fsf@engels.histomat.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423816228 9998 80.91.229.3 (13 Feb 2015 08:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:30:28 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 13 09:30:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YMBda-0007DS-B5 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 09:30:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53919 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMBdZ-0008Ua-NH for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Feb 2015 03:30:09 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 27.96.197.126 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1423807656 22735 27.96.197.126 (13 Feb 2015 06:07:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 06:07:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:DWtPYVfoUcWqzC0cQkwXD6CvFEw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:88568 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17440 Archived-At: Haines Brown writes: > I thought this worked, but it turned out to apply only to the current > buffer because it was not saved. This reason is that all my emacs > sessions use -q and define their own init files. > > What I need is a string in the init files that defines the > highlight/transient background. Could you be of help here? When you hit "apply and save", the setting was saved to your .emacs file, presumably. Look for the `custom-set-variables' section in that file and see what it saved, and put that in your other startup file. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/