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I am hunting all around - I want to change a color but I need to know the "face" that needs changing (lemmy.one)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by waspentalive@lemmy.one to c/emacs@lemmy.ml

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Updates - Formatting, one more small information.

I have been hunting documentation and trying things in my .emacs file for 2 days now..

The type of message that appears at the bottom of the screen, one example is "Save the file ? (y,n,! ...." On my system it is dark blue on black. Also "Modified buffers exist..." dark blue on black - hard to read. What face is that?

Here is what I have tried so far:

(custom-set-faces
  '(mode-line ((t (:foreground "white" :background "blue" :weight bold))))
  '(warning ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(error ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(success ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black"))))
  '(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(shadow ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
  '(completions-common-part ((t (:foreground "yellow"))))
  '(completions-first-difference ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))
  '(default ((t (:foreground "white" :background "black"))))
 )

describe-face for another prompt with the same coloring says it is the default face. So I tried changing that from the M-x prompt but that turned my screen white on yellow.

The mode-line line works - my active mode line is white on blue.

Does it matter that I am running emacs in a tty instead of the GUI version?

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[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I asked on #emacs and the consensus (including me) was that it's probably the default face, though I'm not sure why you had problems changing it.

[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

With a quick test, this works for me...

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :foreground "yellow")

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I can't get it to accept the 'attribute' part.

set-face-foreground 'default "white" changed the text in the edit area to white, but had no effect on the text described above.

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