Xref: utzoo comp.emacs:5773 comp.sys.ibm.pc:26890 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Freemacs Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 89 01:30:59 GMT References: <1303@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 17 In-reply-to: mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu's message of 31 Mar 89 19:42:33 GMT In article <1303@ur-cc.UUCP> mcli@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Maurice Ling) writes: One (probably trivial) annoyance is the blinking mode line. Is there any way you can make it stop blinking? Yes. Use M-x edit-options, and set mode-back-color to 7. Most probably your normal DOS colors are 15 (White) and 0 (Black). When Freemacs starts up, it samples the colors on your screen and makes them available as ##(lv,fo) and ##(lv,bo) (Foreground Original and Background Original). Freemacs naively swaps these two colors to inverse the mode line. Setting the background color to anything greater than 7 causes blinking. The next version (1.5e if it's trivial, 2.0 if I eliminate the 64K limit on file size) has fixed this. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) If you can, help others. If you can't, | Leftoid and proud of it at least don't hurt others--the Dalai Lama |