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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Emacs set-cursor-color in iTerm problem Post 302215803 by pepperjacl on Thursday 17th of July 2008 07:57:31 AM
Old 07-17-2008
Emacs set-cursor-color in iTerm problem

Hi
I'm trying to customise emacs to work within iTerm (I've aliased emacs = emacs -nw so it runs inside my shell) but I can't get the 'set-cursor-color' to work. I have the following in my .emacs file:

(set-cursor-color "LightSkyBlue")
(set-background-color "Black")
(set-foreground-color "White")
(set-mouse-color "LightSkyBlue")
(global-font-lock-mode t)
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)

which successfully changes the background and foreground colours, but not the cursor colour! (so now it's black on black.. I can't see it!)

This setting works if I open emacs outside my terminal, or under X11 or Mac's inbuild 'Terminal' application, but I like using iTerm... any ideas most welcome!

Thanks

Pepperjack
pepperjacl
 

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set_color(1)							       fish							      set_color(1)

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set_color - set_color - set the terminal color set_color - set the terminal color Synopsis set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR] Description Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple, cyan, white and normal. o -b, --background Set the background color o -c, --print-colors Prints a list of all valid color names o -h, --help Display help message and exit o -o, --bold Set bold or extra bright mode o -u, --underline Set underlined mode o -v, --version Display version and exit Calling set_color normal will set the terminal color to whatever is the default color of the terminal. Some terminals use the --bold escape sequence to switch to a brighter color set. On such terminals, set_color white will result in a grey font color, while set_color --bold white will result in a white font color. Not all terminal emulators support all these features. This is not a bug in set_color but a missing feature in the terminal emulator. set_color uses the terminfo database to look up how to change terminal colors on whatever terminal is in use. Some systems have old and incomplete terminfo databases, and may lack color information for terminals that support it. Download and install the latest version of ncurses and recompile fish against it in order to fix this issue. Version 1.23.1 Sun Jan 8 2012 set_color(1)
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