...lock 0) is insufficient to do what I want. (There is a long thread on emacs-devel about it when I reported this in August 2007.) The best approach for me was suggested by Juri Linkov (jurta.org), which is to explicitly reset all faces, except for the mode line. Here is the code, mostly written by him. Hope this helps. karl ;; Kill all faces except mode lines ...

...-lock 0) is insufficient to do what I want. (There is a long thread on emacs-devel about it when I reported this in August 2007.) The best approach for me was suggested by Juri Linkov (jurta.org), which is to explicitly reset all faces, except for the mode line. Here is the code, mostly written by him. Hope this helps. karl ;; Kill all faces except mode lines (defun my-faces-fix...

...(setq overlay (car (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (o) (and (overlay-get o 'put-image) o)) (overlays-in (point) (1+ (point))))))) (overlay-put overlay 'file file) (overlay-put overlay 'icon-file icon-file)))))) (add-hook 'dired-after-readin-hook 'dired-insert-file-icons) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

... windows like I want to. But does not change the startup behaviour. Stephan Thanks to Juri Linkov, I borrowed the following code from his nice site http://www.jurta.org/emacs (add-hook 'after-init-hook (lambda () ;; Show home directory on left pane, and last visited file on right (split-window-horizontally) (dired (my-home ?h...