From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Overriding some face attributes without changing the default(s) one(s) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:52:23 +0200 Message-ID: <871tv05z88.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402168458 20557 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2014 19:14:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 19:14:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 21:14:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WtM47-0000H7-Et for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:14:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52821 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WtLmJ-0002Rj-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WtLjU-0006Sr-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WtLjO-0008OO-Bb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:52:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34914) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WtLjO-0008OE-5I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 14:52:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WtLjL-0004z3-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-104-114.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.104.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-104-114.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 20:52:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-104-114.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1EAAem+b1bvRYAcFqJqeLPgritA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:98076 Archived-At: Alexandre LAURENT writes: > Hi, > > I am trying to customize the whitespace-mode face for "long" lines. > By default, a specific face is defined for long lines but it is kind > of ugly in my case. > I would actually like these lines to look the same color as usual with > weight = bold, i.e. keeping the syntax highlighting (keywords, > strings, function names, etc.), but overriding weight or underline > attributes. Just configure the face to use the bold attribute, and leave all other attributes emtpy. > From > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Attributes.html, > it seems that setting some attributes to undefined "tells Emacs to > refer to a parent face", but not sure what the parent is in this case > anyway. This refers to inheritance, which is not directly related to what you want. > Since there are multiple different faces for syntax highlighting, and > only one for long lines, I'm not sure that this is even possible. But > if it is, any ideas? What you want works well for me without doing anything special. The `whitespace-line' face is "merged" with the normal font locking, and I see the colors from syntax highlighting, but in bold for long lines. I'm not completely sure if that works in older Emacs version. Anyway, just try it! Michael.