Subject: Re: bug#2501: 22.2.1: terminal mrxvt white - font's are unreadable

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:22:11 -0800 (PST)

Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> writes:

  > On a white mrxt black on white terminal[1], the font-lock colors are
  > unreadable. See attached picture.
  > 
  >     $ tput colors
  >     8
  > 
  > Please improve font-lock-keywords.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > [1] Debian; mrxvt 0.5.3-2 terminal
  > http://packages.debian.org/mrxvt

It appears that emacs thinks that you have dark background.   What did
you set TERM to?
This looks like it is an rxvt derivative, so the value of the COLORFGBG
environment variable should help emacs realize what is the default
background.