Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>:
>  I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble.
>  I had two lines in .emacs
> 
>  ;;(set-background-color "black")
>  ;;(set-foreground-color "white")

Suggestion: rely on ~/.Xresources|~/.Xdefaults values instead:

(0) infidel /home/keeling_ grep -i emacs .Xresources 
Emacs*foreground:                  wheat
Emacs*background:                  black
Emacs*cursorColor:                 green
Emacs.geometry:                    104x46-59+43
Emacs*font:                        -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-10-100-75-75-m-60-iso8859-1
Emacs.dialog*.background:       LightSteelBlue1
Emacs.dialog*.foreground:       DarkRed


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