From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Red background color when editing a file as root (using TRAMP) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:59:47 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1226671257.585790@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <9c5c3657-7b90-4dd4-8f34-0b97cef109c6@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <35441d76-c574-4825-80eb-b7c12ede2be2@q30g2000prq.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226673849 18494 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2008 14:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:44:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 15:45:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L0zv3-0005n7-HE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:45:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L0ztv-0000WP-EC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:43:59 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news.k-dsl.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1226671291 26633 143.93.54.11 (14 Nov 2008 14:01:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:01:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-068-221-013.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164454 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59788 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Nordlöw wrote: >> How do I buffer-locally set the background color? > > You can't: background color is a frame parameter, so it can be set > local to each frame but not each buffer. > You can fake it with an overlay. But this works only on the non-empty parts of a buffer. (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max) (current-buffer) nil t))) (overlay-put ov 'face '(:background "red"))) -ap