Curt wrote: > I heard about one fellow whose window background color was strangely > similar to his emacs highlighting color, and this explained why his > highlighting efforts were suboptimal and even quite close to being > totally invisible.
I had something similar to this happen to me with Emacs 24. I ended up adding an override to my ~/.emacs to set the highlighting color. Tom, which Emacs package are you using? The (default) GTK-based build can behave differently than the Lucid-based build. One way to change the highlighting color is to do M-x customize-face RET region RET Pick a background color that works for you, then save the change from the Customize window. regards, mike
