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 <filespec>? (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.

  • donio@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    I am pretty that’s the minibuffer-prompt face. But that’s on the “already tried” list so not sure why that didn’t work.

    (custom-set-faces '(minibuffer-prompt ((t (:foreground "yellow" :weight bold))))) does the job for me.

    Edit: oh yeah, as others have already mentioned it might also come from default. Other faces inherit from default so for example with the settings above you’d still inherit :background from default since we are not overriding it.

  • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      With a quick test, this works for me…

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

      • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
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        21 hours ago

        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.

        • Trent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          20 hours ago

          Bah, I misread stuff. Long day. I just tested in my terminal and (set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt "cyan") changed the save-file prompt messages.