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Hello. I use emacs to edit some files. And it works fine, except that some prompts are in a dark purple color that is almost impossible to read with the black background.

Is there a convenient way to turn off the colors in emacs? Or is there a convenient way to make the console not do colors at all?

Thank you

This Stack Overflow answer looks like it might be what you're looking for.

Thanks, but actually -- that command (font-lock-mode) turns on and off the feature that uses colors to highlight the syntax of the file being edited.

What is annoying me is when I do something like Escape-X replace-string

Emacs then puts a message on the bottom of the screen (to prompt me for what to replace or whatever) and that message is blue which I can barely read against the black background. The font-lock-mode does not (apparently) affect those messages.

Thanks,

Morris

Perhaps you can try a different theme or https://github.com/jaredgorski/nothing.el

Thanks. I was able to get that to work (the "nothing" theme) and it addressed the issue.

Thank you.

Morris

Thanks for letting us know!