Re: Color Setup in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arne Claassen <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:02:10 -0700
> 
> If i use my .emacs file to set up colors like:
> 
> (set-background-color "DarkSlateGray")
> (set-foreground-color "Wheat")
> 
> and then open a new window, via C-X 5 2, then the next window comes up 
> in the app default colors... Under linux, i can permanently set the 
> colors via .Xdefaults.
> 
> So is this a bug that the .emacs preferences don't carry forward, or 
> where is the proper place to set up colors?

It's not a bug: set-foreground-color and set-background-color only
change colors of the current frame.  The other frames get their
colors from default-frame-alist.