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From: Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: color of transient-mark-mode
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:18:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iof7cdco.fsf@engels.histomat.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.19746.1423728582.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>

Helmut Waitzmann <nn.throttle@xoxy.net> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:
>
>>I'm running emacs 24.4.1 on Debian Wheezy, and the background color of
>>transient mark is too dark, making the highlighted text hard to
>>read. I'd like to change the background color to a lighter color, but
>>I'm sure this can be done yet in my current version of emacs.
>
> Hit
>
> M-x list-faces-display
>
> to get the Faces Buffer.  Position the cursor at the line starting with
> “region”.  Press
>
> C-m
>
> customize and save.

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?
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-12 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-11 17:50 Haines Brown
2015-02-12  8:09 ` Helmut Waitzmann
     [not found] ` <mailman.19746.1423728582.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2015-02-12 13:40   ` Haines Brown
2015-02-12 16:18   ` Haines Brown [this message]
2015-02-13  6:07     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-13  6:08       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-16  0:59     ` Helmut Waitzmann

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