Re: text properties in tex mode

[Kostas Oikonomou <k.oikonomou@att.net>]

Harven,

Thank you for the reply.

 > Thus any face you set is overwritten by the font-lock 
processing.
 > Disabling font-lock-mode (M-x font-lock-mode) brings back 
the menu
 > you are interested in, but you will lose the coloring 
provided by
 > latex-mode.

I have indeed disabled font-lock mode everywhere by

(global-font-lock-mode -1)

in my init.el file.  I don't mind losing font-lock coloring 
in my Latex buffer.
But when I then do Edit -> Text Properties -> Background 
color, I get the error I posted.
Are you saying above that this should not be happening?

 > Another solution would be to use overlays instead of 
faces for region highlighting. That's what use the 
highlight-regexp command;
 > this command highlight words matching a regexp. I think 
there is
 > an extension called highlight.el, by Drew Adams, which 
provides easy access to overlays.
 > Have a look at the wiki 
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HighLight

I have looked at this, but it seems too complicated to me. 
Maybe because I don't know enough about Emacs.  I would 
prefer to use the already-existing Edit -> Text Properties 
menu, unless it is not possible.

                     Kostas