Change Emacs syntax highlighting colors

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adum picture adum · Jul 2, 2009 · Viewed 76.2k times · Source

I'm running Emacs, editing files in C++ mode and PHP mode. I love syntax highlighting as a concept, but the default colors are a travesty. I can barely read some of them: way too dark. What is the easiest way to change their values? I can't seem to find anything about this on the web. I don't even mind changing the binary as I'm compiling my own Emacs. I just want to find the place where it says blue is #0000FF and change it to #AAAAFF for example.

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seth picture seth · Jul 2, 2009

I find it easiest to use color-theme for this sort of thing.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorThemes

But if you don't want to do that, put the cursor over the offending text, hit M-x customize-face. It should default to the face that the cursor is over.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specific-Customization.html

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