Re: 23.0.60; Echo Area Face

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

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