[OS X Emacs] Colors for active mode-line

[Paul Metzner]

That's what I was trying to do. Thanks! I'm still new to Emacs, so I'm still struggling with some peculiarities…

On 2 Dec 2010, at 15:17, David Reitter wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Paul Metzner wrote:
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>> Am I missing something or is it just not possible to change colors and/or fonts for the mode-line in Aquamacs? When I apply my theme in Carbon Emacs, all mode-lines are affected. I tried to define colors for mode-line and mode-line-inactive, but that didn't work.
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> Not sure what you tried to customize.  I just did M-x customize-face RET mode-line RET, then write in the background color "blue" where it says "grey75", and click "set for current session".  Now I have a blue modeline.
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> It could be that you and your theme are using wrongly capitalized color names.  The older Carbon Emacs (Emacs 22) is less fuzzy than the newer Cocoa Emacs (Emacs 23), on which Aquamacs 2.x is based.
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