From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bc Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to customize a face? (Docs don't help) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:42:21 -0500 Organization: we live to survive our paradoxes. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DBFFDDD.78832967@example.net> References: Reply-To: bc@example.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035995203 3617 80.91.224.249 (30 Oct 2002 16:26:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:26:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 186vg2-0000w3-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:26:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 186vfm-0006Pu-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:26:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uunet!sea.uu.net!sac.uu.net!dfw.uu.net!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!ausnews2.austin.ibm.com!tivnews!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn9-27-137-65.raleigh.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: tivnews.tivoli.com 1035992563 8909 9.27.137.65 (30 Oct 2002 15:42:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@tivnews.tivoli.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:42:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106567 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3117 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3117 Da Witch wrote: > > When it comes to the question of how to customize a font face, I find > the Emacs documentation not helpful at... I remember that in the > past, customizing faces has taken me hours of trial-and-error and > fruitless scanning of the docs. I see now that this confusing > situation has not changed... For example, I've spent about 1 hour > this morning trying in vain to find out how to determine the name of a > face I have on the screen (so that I can customize it). If I do M-x > customize-face, and I'm prompted for the name of the face to > customize, the default answer is "all", which is much less helpful a > default answer than the name of the face the point is currently on. > The mode I'm currently using has about one dozen faces, and I can't > tell from their names what most of them correspond to. > > Thanks in advance, > > h I agree, this could be a lot simpler. Does list-faces-display help any?