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I was running Emacs version 18.57.1 under X-windows and noticed a
problem.  Here is the result of M-x emacs-version:

exptools GNU Emacs 18.57.1 of Tue Dec 17 1991 on bell2 (berkeley-unix)

The problem is this:

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I added the following lines to my .Xdefaults file:

Emacs*Foreground: Burlywood1
Emacs*Background: black

expecting Emacs to start up (after running xrdb .Xdefaults) in
burlywood on black.  When I restarted Emacs, the cursor color and
pointer colors DID change to burlywood, although the text remained
black on white.

I was eventually able to change the text color, although to do this I
removed the default X settings I had in the same file.  To be precise,
I removed the lines:

*foreground: black
*background: white

from the end of the file.  I first tried moving these two lines to
before the Emacs*Foreground line to see if that worked (it didn't).

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Perhaps this was meant as a feature, I don't know.  I guess it could
be advertised as one. (?) :-)

Regardless, it is normal for X-windows programs to use the first
resource setting that they find and can match, thus allowing users to
put X application defaults at the end of the .Xdefaults file.

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Jerry Williams
gsw@aloft.att.com
(215)439-7237