<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul,<div><br></div><div>Do you still have this problem? I use Aquamacs with dark backgrounds all the time, and it looks great. FWIW, here's the relevant section of my ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/customizations.el file:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">(custom-set-faces</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> '(autoface-default ((((type ns)) (:inherit default :height 120 :family "Menlo" :background "#000028"))))</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> '(font-lock-comment-face ((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark)) (:foreground "green"))))</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> '(font-lock-constant-face ((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark)) (:foreground "gold"))))</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> '(font-lock-string-face ((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark)) (:foreground "yellow"))))</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> '(latex-mode-default ((t (:inherit text-mode-default :stipple nil :strike-through nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width normal :family "Menlo"))))</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Courier New'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> '(text-mode-default ((t (:inherit autoface-default :height 120 :family "Menlo")))))</span></font></div></div><div><br></div><div>-- Pete</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Paul Fisher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Pretty much any way that I try it...<br><br> (set-background-color "black")<br> (set-foreground-color "white")<br><br>or via Options->Appearance->Foreground | Background ending up in customizations.el as in the screen shot below, which illustrates the difference:<br><br><a href="http://s1011.photobucket.com/albums/af236/fisherpk/?action=view¤t=bad-fonts.png">http://s1011.photobucket.com/albums/af236/fisherpk/?action=view¤t=bad-fonts.png</a><br><br>btw, a remote emacs via X that looks wonderful...<br><br><br><br>On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:09 PM, David Reitter wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 21, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Paul Fisher wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">except that when i try to enable black (or any dark) background <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How do you do this?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://aquamacs.org -- Aquamacs: Emacs on Mac OS X<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://aquamacs.org/donate -- Could we help you? Return the favor and support the Aquamacs Project!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>--<br>paul<br><br>_____________________________________________________________<br>MacOSX-Emacs mailing list<br>MacOSX-Emacs@email.esm.psu.edu<br>http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-emacs<br>List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.macintosh.osx<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>