Re: Setting the color of the window (frame?) border.

[Xah Lee]

On Dec 11, 6:30 am, "Tim Visher" <tim.vis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm using Emacs based on two different builds.  At home I've got a Mac
> and I'm using Emacs.app built out of MacPorts.  At work I'm using the
> latest Emacs binary distro from GNU for Windows XP 32-bit.  On both
> systems I regularly start Emacs with `-fg white -bg black -cr white`
> to set up a basic color set that I think works very nicely.  At work
> on Windows, this works very nicely with dark gray borders on the
> windows (so when you get the 'line continuation' arrows you can see
> them on the background).  At home, on the other hand, they are white.
> This is pretty bad, as most of the status things that show up in that
> little border are also white.  As a side note, the cursor on the Mac
> is also solid no matter what, so when I go over a character with it,
> it blocks it out rather than allowing me to see it in a reverse video
> fashion.
>
> How do I fix this?  I'm primarily interested in getting my Mac install
> to behave like my Windows install.
>
> Thanks in advance!

you can put something like this in your “.emacs”.
(setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 1) (right . 1) (width . 80)
(height . 45)))
there are also parameters for background color and other things.
Search emacswiki.org you'll find it.

>
> In Christ,

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