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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Setting the background colour of a buffer or window
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hagv68su.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SR8d5FwZ3ha_w6-nb7Rcqw3cPcsGKLua1F=A_aXYE9iMQ@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:52:11 +0200")


> You can do something like
>
>   emacs -Q
>   c-x 2
>   c-h N
>   c-x o
>   M-: (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist) <RET>
>   M-: (push '(default (:background "blue")) face-remapping-alist) <RET>
>
> So you have a different default background for the buffer (not the
> window).

A non-geeky version of it will be 

1. M-x customize-variable RET buffer-face-mode-face RET
2. M-x buffer-face-mode RET




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-16 13:32 Setting the background colour of a buffer or window Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-16 13:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-06-16 21:07   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-06-18  9:57   ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-06-18 10:02     ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-07-04  8:13 ` Vitalie Spinu

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