As I’ve written recently [1, 2, 3, 4], I’ve been changing the Irreal Bunker’s spelling corrector to Jinx. I’ve had a couple of issues—mostly with choosing the correction—but things have mostly been smooth and Jinx has a lot of nice features.
One thing I don’t like is the face that Jinx chooses for misspelled words. Ispell used red, which stood out and made it easy to pick out the misspellings. Jinx uses a color that is almost the same as the text and even though misspellings are underlined with a wavy line they’re harder to pick out. There are two colors: one for dark themes and one for light themes. Oddly, there are no options for changing the colors.
Happily, this is Emacs so the source code is only a click away. It turns out the color is defined by a defface in the jinx.el file. I copied that to my init.el and changed the color to red Here’s the result:
(defface jinx-misspelled
'((((class color) (min-colors 88) (background dark)
(supports :underline (:style wave)))
:underline (:style wave :color "#d2b580"))
(((class color) (min-colors 88) (background light)
(supports :underline (:style wave)))
:underline (:style wave :color "#ff0000")) ; <-- changed color
(t :underline t :inherit error))
"Face used for misspelled words.")
I was going to change the color for the dark theme too just for completeness but the Minions wouldn’t allow it. You know how they are about dark themes. If you want to change the color in your Emacs, just paste the above into your init.el and choose whichever color works for you. You can, of course, also fix things up for dark themes. Just don’t tell the Minions.