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As far as I know, Dired and Dired+ work better by default (give better color contrast) on color themes with clear backgrounds. I know I can customize face colors on Dired+ for Emacs manually using M-x customize-face, but this can be tedious when customizing multiple faces one by one.

Given this, I was wondering if anybody knows of a code snippet that automatically customizes those faces that don't work well on dark themes such as Zenburn or Tango.

I am mostly interested on a solution for Dired+, but I wonder if a solution exists for Bookmarks+ too.

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Make sure that the background-mode frame parameter of your frames is set correctly (to dark).

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-mode . dark))

This may not be enough as some modes use additional faces whose default value doesn't depend on default-frame-alist. After you've done that, use list-faces-display to see what faces have poor contrast, and add lines like these to your .emacs:

(set-face-background 'something-face "SomeDarkColor") (set-face-foreground 'something-face "SomeLightColor")
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  • How can I apply my main color theme, monokai, to dired+ buffers? Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 19:46

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