I have this in my prelude personal/init.el but it doesn't work in my terminal emacs:

(set-background-color "grey15")
(set-face-attribute 'region nil :background "#666")
(print "Hello from personal/init.el")

Works for me. Which OS / Terminal / Emacs version? I'm running Linux Pop_OS!, Emacs 26.3, Terminator

Or does it work if you evaluate it inline?

Ah yeah, it doesn't work when it's loaded during initialization

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL2, Emacs 26.3, terminal http://iTerm2.app in macOS

Try this instead: (set-face-background 'default "grey15")

works!

Unless you're changing the region somewhere else (or loading a theme, but probably not) the region line should work

thanks a lot

Annoooying: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6268264/6264

This actually worked to fix it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25900375/6264

Is it possible to get these kind of visual hints when you change something git-related on the side in a terminal emacs?

I don't think so. Since the fringe is only supported in GUI Emacs

da'mn

https://github.com/emacsorphanage/git-gutter

https://github.com/emacsorphanage/git-gutter-fringe

There is a non fringe version

Just wondering, why don't you use the GUI version?

So just git-gutter I should install?

Yeah, without the fringe. Not sure what the + is

Because I'm working on a remote system (well, just a PC in my room, but I don't have a keyboard attached to it).

SSH? and you have Emacs installed there?

yes

I thought I remembered you mentioning using TRAMP some time ago. So I assume you've looked into that 🙂

Which I guess isn't an option for some reason?

I'm using tramp, but this was slow with magit-status. Also I got strange hangups in dired.

So now I'm trying this

Another option is working in the RDP session

just figuring it out still

git-gutter seems to work btw

Haven't used tramp in a while myself. But a couple of jobs back we had a lot of remote servers, and I used tramp for that (including Magit). Worked quite well

I do remember having to tweak my settings to make it work fast though

if you remember those tweaks, feel free to share. one benefit of working over ssh is that I can access all the machines in the same way

This is what I used during that time https://github.com/kwrooijen/.emacs.d/tree/40e0054b012814fd1550e3c6648af4a22e73df72#tramp

I don't really see anything specific that should fix the issue though 😕

Maybe setting tramp-completion-reread-directory-timeout to nil, possibly

Although I think that was more Helm related

Maybe it's just WSL2 that's being weird. Btw, I also had to tweak my login shell scripts to make tramp work, since it didn't understand the output from zsh

Maybe the dired problem is related to that

I think I disabled zsh because I couldn't get it to work but idk. 'twas a while ago

What I do in the zsh script is when TERMINAL is set to dumb, I just execute bash

This fixed most of the stuff

oh yes, one other thing with tramp was that flycheck clj-kondo did work, but of course it doesn't resolve the right config. it's a bit complex

And emacs on Windows just doesn't look so good

also not via the X server, or maybe it's just something I need to get used to