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 ...

I'm using Emacs since a long time and I've customized it quite a lot. I've even written simple ELisp functions and now I'm starting to use macros more and more. I'm not anywhere near a knowledgable...

I have font-lock mode on by putting (global-font-lock-mode 1) in .emacs. And, with font-lock mode "your program certainly look different" as explained in page 274 of Learning GNU emacs. What I fou...