Re: Colouring a cell within a table

[uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>]

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On Sunday, September 18th, 2022 at 7:54 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:


> I can think of using enriched mode for that, as if you want to remember those cookies across sessions, that is one way.
> 
> Other way of to use HTML tables. I just don't know if Emacs package that visually edits HTML.
> 
> Then I can think of local variables that could keep information how to highlight some pieces of text, during work. That will not make representation highlighted.
> 
> Maybe SES spreadsheet supports take colors.
> 
> 
> On September 17, 2022 12:35:19 PM UTC, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me 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.

I did not realise it was not so straightforward.  As you rightly pointed out,
emacs has to keep track of the specific table and what colouring options were
applied by the user.

Perhaps we can think into some more depth about this, because such functionality
could have fantastic capability.