From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 10:50:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83edt7y74p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <838rjh12ar.fsf@gnu.org> <831qp82340.fsf@gnu.org> <7hfB2ezKjZh_K-reiMy_gBkdzzIdjPKMcgHK2dFD_JA8ISv5dWcSO2rNRm40ZKGFns3J-Gq0AfD4E6pPfSL03pgK56kDGuHzIUXO638yw9s=@protonmail.com> <83y1rfyasn.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16755"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 09:51:32 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p3vZz-0004Dl-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:51:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3vZN-0008Pl-2V; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3vZM-0008PC-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:50:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3vZL-0005V8-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:50:51 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=2VuTwPRIua3qk/ilM6g1atdRG901WDbubpaY5PXBX+4=; b=H8yZWPYhGGaP CgvUJqsZAqyRuEt6OgF+EQwSX1HD1R0U+VJmE0KmvmEpyhpm1TAegNmipynaGBHESXl5JChct91Y4 YQc7FajaJnZAUNoyVEI5TcVUUaka8j0vxboAYnDTYo18P4zSnWQJdg4DEASvvjZAfuIjmk7bkXV3p EFKfBUJXJ0a/EZCH1jkXldbuHembd6Aek6Ivc+BVfU55fgKoWzG/yjxL16lXnvYpNFx3qHePvkCs6 xjIX96zaEodYjBupIHt3/oLtQxQcIYT9ukSspx/G/6beX1zr8TjOebV7g5LF62zZFgsvJDMwqJBjk 5WfoCJKEQiYMHBF/gChaTg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3vZJ-0007Fa-8n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 03:50:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Heime on Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:31:30 +0000) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141553 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:31:30 +0000 > From: Heime > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > > Have tried (enriched-mode). I then select some text and do "Edit - Text Properties - Background Colour - Other". But nothing happens. > > > > > > Look closer: when you do this, Emacs prompts you for the color in the > > minibuffer. So "nothing happens" is not really accurate. > > I missed that. It does as you say. But what is the exact procedure to change the colour of some text. You type the name of a color, such as "green" (without the quotes), and press RET. > The colour in not taking effect on the text. It does here.