             ;; so bring it up a notch or two
             '(foreground-color . "grey54")  ;; foreground from solarized-emacs
 	    ;; '(background-color . "black")
-	    ;; '(background-color . "#002b36")  ;; backround from solarized-emacs
-                                                ;; but it does not work well with shell-mode, so choose a named color
-	    '(background-color . "color-235")  ;; this is a black from list-colors-display
+	    '(background-color . "#002b36")  ;; background from solarized-emacs
 	    ;; '(cursor-color . "DarkOrange")
 	    '(cursor-color . "DarkOrange3")  ;; tone down cursor some with solarized colors
 	    ))

;;; jwms emacs startup file
;;;

;; add in my dotfile-controlled emacs lisp when it is available
(cond ((file-exists-p "~/.emacs.jwm.d/elisp")
       (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.jwm.d/elisp")))

;; add in the brew emacs directory when it exists
(cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp")
       (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp")))

;; support for el-get https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get")

(unless (require 'el-get nil 'noerror)
  (with-current-buffer

  (require 'yaml-mode)
  (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.yml$" . yaml-mode)))

;;; on OS X, set binding for meta to be command key, next to space bar
;;;  disable meaning of option key, so it is passed into emacs.
;;;  I use these semantics so that, e.g., option-v gives me the square root character.
;;;
;;; I have had this code much higher in this init file; however, I run into eval order
;;;  issues.  When I leave it here late in the sequence, it seems to do what I want.
(when (and window-system (eq 'ns window-system))
  (set-variable (quote mac-option-modifier) 'none))

