* On 2020 26 Jan 20:14 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 6:01 AM Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote: > > What do you get if there is no ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el file? > > Still no highlighting without the xrdb incantation. Sorry, I've never had to do anything like that, so I'm of no further help. :( > > > Are you using the Emacs GTK GUI or running in a terminal? > > I'm using: > > emacs-gtk - GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ GUI support) My Gnome menu on Buster, which I have not changed, shows the following for Emacs commands: Emacs (Terminal) /usr/bin/emacs -nw %F and: Emacs (GUI) /usr/bin/emacs %F I presume the '%F' is the GUI's way of passing a file list to emacs. I decided to chase 'emacs' in the terminal. Tab completion shows: $ emacs emacs emacsclient emacsclient.emacs emacs-gtk Checking 'emacs' further I see that it is a symlink: $ ls -l `which emacs-gtk` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39926024 Sep 4 21:35 /usr/bin/emacs-gtk* $ ls -l `which emacs` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 14 2018 /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs* $ ll /etc/alternatives/emacs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 14 2018 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs-gtk* I see that the GUI doesn't call 'emacs-gtk' directly. I'm not sure if that makes any difference with emacs, but it sometimes does as certain programs will check the name they were called by and change behavior accordingly. I don't know if emacs does this check or not. You might try running 'emacs -nw -q' in a terminal which will cause it to run in the terminal with a basic set of colors. After that, I would start looking for and removing any Gtk configuration file (~/.gtk*) or themes out of the way. It might be picking up a Gtk theme that is causing your issue, though I think setting the colors for the editor frame as in my example does override any Gtk theme. > > anti-aliased fonts were well supported), I have configured Emacs the > > same in my ~/.emacs.d/init.al file: > > > > (custom-set-faces > ... > > Thanks, but I like a white os very light background. I find that as I age that dark backgrounds lead to far less eye strain. Unfortunately, trying to force the Web into dark backgrounds doesn't work well so I don't bother with forcing the browsers into dark backgrounds. All my terminals and editors are setup with a dark background. I used to like them light, like you, but longish coding sessions showed me the value of light text on a dark background. Hopefully you'll get some ideas. Have you posted any screenshots that I missed? - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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