From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Colouring a cell within a table
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:13:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtavbavc.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8Up3phLUJnTBYrBqCRKC7kSUzWmCU0EyBQANzUU4EBYKw@mail.gmail.com
Yuri Khan wrote:
>> Am looking for information to see how I can colour a cell
>> within a table. Ideally I would like to have a keybinding
>> so that when I an in a cell its background in changed to
>> a different colour.
>
> Why do you want to do this?
>
> In general, coloring parts of a document in predefined
> colors is a bad thing to want. Users with a different color
> theme than yours will have trouble reading the document.
>
> A better direction is to define a major mode for your class
> of documents, a few faces, and fontification rules that find
> fragments your users would want colored and apply those
> faces. The user will be able to customize the faces to
> their liking.
The Emacs mode already has support for font lock
(AKA "syntax highlighting" outside the Emacs world) for the
desired document type. If a different or more tivoli than that
is desired, configure it or add new font lock rules with
`font-lock-add-keywords', e.g.
(font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode
'(
("`.*'" . font-lock-reference-face)
("font-lock-builtin-face" . font-lock-builtin-face)
("font-lock-comment-delimiter-face" . font-lock-comment-delimiter-face)
("font-lock-comment-face" . font-lock-comment-face)
("font-lock-constant-face" . font-lock-constant-face)
("font-lock-doc-face" . font-lock-doc-face)
("font-lock-function-name-face" . font-lock-function-name-face)
("font-lock-keyword-face" . font-lock-keyword-face)
("font-lock-negation-char-face" . font-lock-negation-char-face)
("font-lock-preprocessor-face" . font-lock-preprocessor-face)
("font-lock-reference-face" . font-lock-reference-face)
("font-lock-regexp-grouping-backslash" . 'font-lock-regexp-grouping-backslash)
("font-lock-regexp-grouping-construct" . 'font-lock-regexp-grouping-construct)
("font-lock-string-face" . font-lock-string-face)
("font-lock-type-face" . font-lock-type-face)
("font-lock-variable-name-face" . font-lock-variable-name-face)
("font-lock-warning-face" . font-lock-warning-face)
)
t)
Those faces are then, much like the Donald Trump supporters
that stormed the Capitolium ...
https://dataswamp.org/~incal/figures/emacs/dressed-up-as-themselves.png
--
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-19 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-17 12:35 Colouring a cell within a table uzibalqa
2022-09-18 7:54 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-18 14:33 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-18 21:22 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-19 7:46 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-19 9:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-19 7:42 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-19 13:15 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-19 16:51 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-09-19 15:29 ` Yuri Khan
2022-09-19 16:13 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-09-22 13:40 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-19 16:33 ` Christopher Dimech
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