Re: modeline colors

[aartist]

Eli Barzilay wrote:
> Does anyone know why in some versions of Emacs (specifically, the one
> shipped with FC6: 21.4.1), changing the default background disables
> my modeline color setting?
>
> If I put this (and only this) in my .emacs:
>
>   (set-face-background 'modeline "red")
>   (set-face-background 'default "blue4")
>
> I get a modeline with the default color.  After Emacs has already
> started, evaluating that first line again produces the expected
> result.  Is this some corner case bug?
>
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>           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>                   http://www.barzilay.org/                 Maze is Life!

M-x customize-face RET mode-line