Re: setting the window background?

[joakim@verona.se]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>> Is it correct that there is a way to set the frame background but no way
>>> to set the window background?
>>
>> Yes.  You don't set the background of a frame, you set the background
>> of the frame's default face.  And faces are local to frames in Emacs.
>
> ... but can be overridden within a buffer, e.g.:
>
>    ;; change background color
>    (setq foo (face-remap-add-relative 'default '(:background "dark green")))
>    ...
>    ;; revert background color to default
>    (face-remap-remove-relative foo)
>
> Unfortunately there's a bug that causes the default face to not work
> quite how one might want in this case -- the space after the last
> position in the buffer is not changed.  However for some uses it may
> be good enough.

Nice! But theres no way to bind this to a window rather than a buffer
right? 


>
> -Miles

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Joakim Verona