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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 25, 2020 20:49 UTC (Fri) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by mtk
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

I'm 43 and I prefer light-on-dark themes in applications and have my terminals set to lightgrey on black as the default colours.

bright backgrounds are (mostly) fantastic on reflective surfaces (books etc), but IME they're horrible on emissive surfaces (like computer screens).

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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 25, 2020 21:23 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (3 responses)

Yes, my emacs is in "dark mode" by default.

$ xrdb -n -query | grep -i emacs
Emacs.background:       Black
Emacs.bold.attributeForeground: Blue
Emacs.foreground:       Wheat1
Emacs.italic.attributeForeground:       hotpink

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 4:47 UTC (Sat) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (2 responses)

Does no-one use "--reverse-video"? I've got aliases and shell scripts which all use it.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 13:01 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link] (1 responses)

That would give me white on black. I want wheat1 on black. ☺️

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 15:01 UTC (Sat) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

You need a --glucose-tolerant mode :-)