From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I don't understand enriched text Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:47:03 +0530 Message-ID: <81ty9xb6sg.fsf@gmail.com> References: <817h6t2s5m.fsf@gmail.com> <201108041011.04845.ndbecker2@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312467460 19301 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 14:17:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Neal Becker Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 16:17:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoyjt-0005p3-JM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoyjt-0008Ev-4T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoyjl-00088H-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoyjk-0005Jw-Hc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f44.google.com ([209.85.210.44]:58093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoyjk-0005Jl-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: by pzk36 with SMTP id 36so1874882pzk.17 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:17:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=Bi2F8H2vFEg15R6vCZDAP+4O7NzTxb8mOIUORZDaYAY=; b=xAQ9vRKqzArsOvgb77yXjZitWYNJ745xXcED+natJ5VaxK0geknPLYaswWWs7kcSp0 J5lpg+Z7qRYoa66MsMkv1EsJKNgW6brPCNQkHuoCqFbzBz6My6WulM6QNp0aToN5StRe h6gDNbVjlIN79bpkrlP9E9wXturRuhQ2D4OzA= Original-Received: by 10.142.204.9 with SMTP id b9mr801706wfg.3.1312467443095; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from JAMBU-NETBOOK ([115.242.240.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u6sm2277410pbh.16.2011.08.04.07.17.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:17:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201108041011.04845.ndbecker2@gmail.com> (Neal Becker's message of "Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:11:04 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.210.44 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81872 Archived-At: Neal Becker writes: > On Thursday, August 04, 2011, Jambunathan K wrote: >> Neal Becker writes: >> > I open test.txt, and put it in enriched mode: M-x enriched-mode >> > >> > Now I type 'hello world' into the buffer. Then select the text. >> > >> > Now how would I, for example, make that text blue? >> >> From the menu bar, choose the color with Edit->Text >> Properties->Foreground Color->blue and then start typing text. > > But 'Face', 'Foreground Color', and 'Background Color' are all disabled. May be it has something to do with the major mode of the buffer. What does M-: mode-name report. Try switching to Fundamental Mode or Text Mode before turning on the enriched mode. >> >> > If I right click, text-properties, 'Face', 'Foreground color', >> > 'Background color' are all disabled (grayed out). >> >> Mark the region and change the face as above. >> >> > How does this work?