Re: Changing colour face for mode-line-buffer-identification

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> writes:

> > Calling `propertized-buffer-identification' returns a one-element
> > list containing the propertized string.` propertize' that string
> > again to
> > change the face.
> > 
> > Unless the face should depend on the buffer or mode. This would be a
> > different situation.
> > 
> > 
> > Michael.
>
> Have done this before but got an error
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (#(" %8b " 0 5 (face mode-line-buffer-id help-echo "Buffer name\nmouse-1: Previous buffer\nmouse-3: Next..." mouse-face mode-line-highlight local-map (keymap (header-line keymap (mouse-3 . mode-line-next-buffer) (down-mouse-3 . ignore) (mouse-1 . mode-line-previous-buffer) (down-mouse-1 . ignore)) (mode-line keymap (mouse-3 . mode-line-next-buffer) (mouse-1 . mode-line-previous-buffer)))))))
>   propertize((#(" %8b " 0 5 (face mode-line-buffer-id help-echo

I had said that you `propertize' the string.  Not the list of course.
You can't add text properties to a list.


Michael.