Unix Tip - Disable Colors in Emacs

Advice: Use vi, like me ;)

I do sometimes. :-) It's much better for my hands and shoulders and all too.

I am just so much more productive in emacs, so it's hard for me to get over the learning curve in vi.

And so NOT worth it ;)

I stopped using Emacs when I started doing more sysadm work than devel work. To lazy to change back to Emacs when I started writed software again, so now I have an editor I know (or at least can use without getting to annoyed) on every box im on, which is about the only real advantage of using vi.

Wow, I've always considered syntax highlighting one of the major selling points of smart editors. For me they provide an almost subconscious cue if something is wrong -- forgot to close a quote, etc. It's true that indenting does this also, but that's why they call them opinions :-)

You know you can change the actual colors that are used for the various items?

I used to like it better; I think when I was getting serious about perl and using bbedit (!) to write code I liked it. But after 5 years of not having colors I can't get myself to appreciate it again. Too Much Noise.

> You know you can change the actual colors
> that are used for the various items?

Yeah, I thought about that too. But it seemed like too much hassle. I work on too many different computers with too many different role accounts.

That's why having a central repository (like, say, a website) where you can grab your .emacs (or custom.el if you use xemacs) is so handy :-) It even works on win32!

vim on newer linux distribution also defaults to colour mode.. yucky

(when coding in emacs it's very handy though..I just change the default colours to something more sane..)

Try using a more sane color scheme!

Add this to your .Xdefaults:

emacs*Foreground: Wheat
emacs*font: fixed
emacs*cursorColor: Green
emacs*Background: RoyalBlue4

and run xrdb .Xdefaults

mmm much more comfortable colors.

Sir,

Can any help me in using colours in UNIX script,

Thanks

Arun

This worked for me:

(global-font-lock-mode nil)

I had to use (global-font-lock-mode nil)

Maybe http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorTheme can help you in choosing a better color theme.

Or you can use, C-u C-x = to see the face of some part and change its color (according to the background) with a command like

(face-spec-set 'show-paren-match-face

	       '((((class color) (type tty)) (:background "yellow"))

		 (((class color) (background light))

		  (:background "black" :foreground "white"))

		 (((class color) (background dark))

		  (:background "light slate blue" :foreground "white"))))