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From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
Subject: Re: change the background color of a single window
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:38:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zm9k80qg.fsf@hans.local.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yoijtzzsqfi9.fsf@gamma02.me.chalmers.se> (Johan Bockgård's message of "Tue\, 19 Dec 2006 12\:41\:50 +0100")

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> is it possible to change the background color of a single window?
>
> No (if you mean the same thing by "window" as Emacs does). There are

Yes, sometimes I'm precise 8-).

> no buffer/window local faces (yet[1]). Faces can be frame local
> though.

Sigh, thank you anyway, you spared me the hassle to look further.

> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-05/msg00137.html

Thank you Johan for the pointer but it's just a minor gripe for me (I
wanted to show a helper window in the frame with another background to
distinguish the windows better while saving the mode line space); I'll
stay with the stock (CVS) Emacs.

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-19 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2085.1166480958.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-19 11:41 ` change the background color of a single window Johan Bockgård
2006-12-19 13:38   ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2006-12-19 14:08     ` Juanma Barranquero
2006-12-19 14:27       ` Dieter Wilhelm
2006-12-18 22:24 Dieter Wilhelm

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