title: How to alter colors in mac/cocoa text views
body: <p>Is there a way to alter the standard background and text colors in cocoa text views throughout the mac os? Since the same text system is used by textedit, mail and other programs, I imagine there is an underlying preference that could be altered. Any ideas how to access it?</p>
  
  <p>Just to be clear, I don't mean simply to alter the <em>document</em> colors. This shouldn't be setting a background color or text color as document formatting. I'm just wondering about how I could make all of these text views use different defaults when displaying documents (e.g. white on blue, rather than black on white). </p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>