23.0.60; Echo Area Face

23.0.60; Echo Area Face

[Florian Beck]

I was experimenting with Miles Baders new face remapping functionality
and tried to display the minibuffer/echo area in a smaller font size.

This does the job for minibuffer-iteraction:

(add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'set-minibuffer-face)

(defun set-minibuffer-face ()
    (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
       '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))

but there doesn't seem a way to influence the display of messages
displayed in the minibuffer. I tought the above would take care of it. I
know the minibuffer is somewhat special. How do I set a buffer local
variable for it?


In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.5 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2008-06-03 on aeschylus
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--with-x-toolkit=no' 'CC=gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O0 -fno-crossjumping -g''

-- 
Florian Beck

Re: 23.0.60; Echo Area Face

[Stefan Monnier]

> I was experimenting with Miles Baders new face remapping functionality
> and tried to display the minibuffer/echo area in a smaller font size.

> This does the job for minibuffer-iteraction:

> (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'set-minibuffer-face)

> (defun set-minibuffer-face ()
>     (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
>        '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))

> but there doesn't seem a way to influence the display of messages
> displayed in the minibuffer. I tought the above would take care of it. I
> know the minibuffer is somewhat special. How do I set a buffer local
> variable for it?

I thought that maybe the following hack I've been using for ages (to add
special key bindings to my minibuffer-only frame, such as `f' to
find-file-other-frame) would work as well but it doesn't because the
echo messages are displayed in the same window as the minibuffers, but
in diferent buffers.

(add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook
          (lambda ()
            (with-current-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-window))
              (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
                   '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))))

so you'll need to set this var in all the " *Echo Area N*" buffers,
which is rather ugly.  I don't know how many of them there can be:
I only see 2 here (the 0 and the 1), but maybe there can be more (tho
maybe not, since there can't be recursive echo area messages AFAIK),


        Stefan

Re: 23.0.60; Echo Area Face

[Kevin Rodgers]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I was experimenting with Miles Baders new face remapping functionality
>> and tried to display the minibuffer/echo area in a smaller font size.
> 
>> This does the job for minibuffer-iteraction:
> 
>> (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'set-minibuffer-face)
> 
>> (defun set-minibuffer-face ()
>>     (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
>>        '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))
> 
>> but there doesn't seem a way to influence the display of messages
>> displayed in the minibuffer. I tought the above would take care of it. I
>> know the minibuffer is somewhat special. How do I set a buffer local
>> variable for it?
> 
> I thought that maybe the following hack I've been using for ages (to add
> special key bindings to my minibuffer-only frame, such as `f' to
> find-file-other-frame) would work as well but it doesn't because the
> echo messages are displayed in the same window as the minibuffers, but
> in diferent buffers.
> 
> (add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (with-current-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-window))
>               (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
>                    '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))))
> 
> so you'll need to set this var in all the " *Echo Area N*" buffers,
> which is rather ugly.  I don't know how many of them there can be:
> I only see 2 here (the 0 and the 1), but maybe there can be more (tho
> maybe not, since there can't be recursive echo area messages AFAIK),

There can not be more than 2: the dual echo area buffers are hard-coded
in xdisp.c.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: 23.0.60; Echo Area Face

[Alin Soare]

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>
> > I was experimenting with Miles Baders new face remapping functionality
> > and tried to display the minibuffer/echo area in a smaller font size.
> > This does the job for minibuffer-iteraction:
> > (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'set-minibuffer-face)
> > (defun set-minibuffer-face ()
> >     (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
> >        '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))
> > but there doesn't seem a way to influence the display of messages
> > displayed in the minibuffer. I tought the above would take care of it. I
> > know the minibuffer is somewhat special. How do I set a buffer local
> > variable for it?
> I thought that maybe the following hack I've been using for ages (to add
> special key bindings to my minibuffer-only frame, such as `f' to
> find-file-other-frame) would work as well but it doesn't because the
> echo messages are displayed in the same window as the minibuffers, but
> in diferent buffers.
> (add-hook 'minibuffer-exit-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (with-current-buffer (window-buffer (minibuffer-window))
>               (set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
>                    '((default :family "DejaVu Sans" :height 0.75))))))
> so you'll need to set this var in all the " *Echo Area N*" buffers,
> which is rather ugly.  I don't know how many of them there can be:
> I only see 2 here (the 0 and the 1), but maybe there can be more (tho
> maybe not, since there can't be recursive echo area messages AFAIK),
>
>         Stefan



I do not undestand at all why do you set the faces of a *minibuffer* when
you EXIT, instead of setting it when you ENTER it,
via minibuffer-setup-hook.

I did so for all major modes (a different file for each hook I need) --
including for minibiffer --, and it works well:

(defun minibuffer-setup ()
  (load (thinkpad-x-theme 'minibuffer) t t)
  )

(add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'minibuffer-setup nil)

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