From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: emacs background colors
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 11:59:30 +0200
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Frank Doyle wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how to change the background color in emacs?  I use a
> .Xdefaults file on my unix system, but I haven't been able to figure it
> out for my ms-dos system.

M-x set-background-color RET blue RET

However, I don't recommend changing the default background color.  Many
colors defined by Emacs packages assume the default light-gray background; if
you change that, chances are that you will need to frob many definitions of
other colors/faces as well.  Down that path lies madness.

Just stick to the default background for a while.  You will get used to it,
eventually.  I did.