- https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2394/in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells
I find it very useful and necessary to know immediately, that a table got recognised by emacs as such. Emacs shows it in colours then.
With the default settings I find the background blue1 (together with foreground gray90) sometimes / often “far too heavy”, let’s say: a contrast far too exhausting for my eyes. Really!
But what is a “less heavy” pair of foreground / background settings for table-cell? “For the time being” I am using plain “black” for the background through emacs customisation (“table-cell” in my “custom-file“).
The StackExchange article explains you everything, you need to know, and also points you to the related customisation buffer.
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Colors.html – “Colors for Faces” – running list-colors-display is faulty for me currently (2019-08-27), so I have to find another way of listing the availables colours
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rgb.txt resp. …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names
| foreground | background | |
| default | black | |
| “light grey” | “dark blue” | |
| 2019-08-27: too difficult | snow1 | gray70 |
| 2019-08-27: works | black | white |
| 2019-08-27: works | tomato | white |