[PLUG] emacs colors

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On my workstation, emacs comes up with certain ideas of how to color
things.

On another machine where I have an account, it makes various "bad"
decisions.  Some of these I can fix:

    (set-mouse-color "blue")
    (set-cursor-color "purple")
    ; (set-background-color "white")
    ; (set-foreground-color "white")

But there are other colors, apparently, and I don't know what to call
them.  For example, syntax highlighting assumes a dark background and
so setting background to white makes a lot of text invisible.

I have no ~/.Xresources.  I tried creating an empty one to no effect.

/etc/X11/Xresources has this to say:

    emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray
    emacs*Foreground: Wheat
    emacs*pointerColor: Orchid
    emacs*cursorColor: Orchid
    emacs*bitmapIcon: on
    emacs*font: fixed
    emacs.geometry: 80x25

which all seems innocuous.  I found some links via google about color
themes, but that way lies dragons, I think.

Any thoughts what must be done to fix this?

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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