From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change the background color of a single window Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:38:15 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87zm9k80qg.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166536336 10808 80.91.229.2 (19 Dec 2006 13:52:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 19 14:52:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwfNo-0006Ni-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:51:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwfNo-0004AW-9d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:51:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwfMB-00033f-GF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GwfM9-00030w-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwfM8-00030b-Ne for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GwfM8-0006c0-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:50:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.49.224] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu5) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML25U-1GwfM629u6-0001MS; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:50:07 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AA64846C7A; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:38:16 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bo?= =?utf-8?Q?ckg=C3=A5rd's?= message of "Tue\, 19 Dec 2006 12\:41\:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39741 Archived-At: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockg=C3=A5rd) writes: > Dieter Wilhelm 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. --=20 Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany