From: Alder Green <alder.green@...>
Date: 2006-05-17T00:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Editing ruby code with Emacs or Vim ?

On 5/16/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> Dave Burt wrote:
> > James Britt wrote:
> >
> >>I've been using gvim for a while, but have been poking around with
> >>xemacs.  One big hurdle is figuring out how to assorted configuration;
> >>for the life of me I cannot discover how to set up a different color
> >>scheme.
> >
> >
> > Use the colorscheme command. type ":colorscheme torte" (without the
> > quotes, where "torte" is the name of a .vim file in /colors) in
> > command-mode to try one out, and once you've found one, add the line
> > "colorscheme torte" to .vimrc.
>
> Thanks; I should have been more clear.  Vim colors  I understand.  It's
> emacs colors that baffle me.
>
>
>
> --
> James Britt
>
> "Design depends largely on constraints."
>  - Charles Eames

Ok, this is tested for Emacs 21.3:

M-x (i.e. "run the builtin function") customize-face

You'll get in the minibuffer:

Customize face: (default all)

Just hit enter, and Emacs would create a large buffer with the
formatting options for each face. It's much beyond just colors:  you
can set e.g. variable names to be bold, have a different background
color, different font... pretty much whatever you want. Just find the
face you want to change; most are pretty obvious ("Variable Name",
"String", "Keyword").

As with everything in Emacs, there are a some more advanced ways,
including stuff like choosing from whole color schemes. Didn't really
use it, so I can't comment; customizing the default scheme was enough
for me.

-- 
-Alder