nedit: colors at startup

[Eddy De Greef]

Here's what I do:

   nedit -xrm "nedit.textBgColor:<some color>"

You'll need version 5.4 or higher, and you can set only one background 
color per nedit (server) instance in this way.

Eddy

wayne.lydecker at l-3com.com wrote:
> I'd like to be able to set different text colors when launching nedit
> from the command line.  The -background (-bg) and -foreground (-fg)
> change the window border.  How can I depict different color text other
> than what is set as default?  I want different colors when I open files
> with "-read" for read-only.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Wayne.