Re: Colours gone

[Richmond]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> Emanuel Berg via info-gnus-english <info-gnus-english@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Richmond wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe it has to be in the context of gnus running?
>>>>
>>>> The link above was broken.
>>>
>>> Thanks for telling me, now the URL is fixed.
>>> The correct one should be:
>>>
>>>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/my-faces.el
>>>
>>>> But I found this, not sure what it is
>>>> telling me.
>>>>
>>>> https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/test-faces.el
>>>
>>> That's something else, to see how the colors
>>> look when actually displayed.
>>>
>>> It sounds like you have it misconfigured
>>> somehow.
>>>
>>> You don't need anything on these URLs, they are
>>> just examples how it can look and what you
>>> can do.
>>>
>>> Just require everything, then set the faces,
>>> byte compile, correct warnings and
>>> errors, do it again, done. Easy.
>>
>> I am afraid I am completely out of my depth. I don't know where these
>> faces came from. I see they are in the file .gnu-emacs, but I have never
>> edited that file.
>
> Looks like you're using this person's dotfiles:
>
> https://github.com/clauseggers/dotfiles/blob/master/.gnu-emacs
>
> As for why you're doing that, no one else can tell you :)
>
> That's also the config that's doing automatic new-group subscription,
> from your earlier message. If I were you I would set this code aside and
> start your config from scratch. It's a bit of a pain to start with, but
> will result in fewer subsequent mysteries.

I think this may have come from OpenSUSE. At the top of the file it
says:

Copyright 1993-2001 Werner Fink
Copyright (c) 1996-2001 SuSE Gmbh Nuernberg, Germany.
All rights reserved.

I never edit these files, neither .gnu-emacs or .gnu-emacs-custom, so I
don't know what is going on in there.