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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Printing coloured strings in help-buffer
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:21:45 +0000	[thread overview]
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On Sunday, April 14th, 2024 at 10:20 AM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> How can I print text with colour? Have made the following and want
> vcname and vcfile to print in colour, in the help buffer.
> 
> 
> (defun gali-intro (vcname vcfile)
> "TODO"
> 
> (princ
> (concat
> "`" vcname "' is a variable defined in` " vcfile "'.\n\n"
> "Its description is shown below.\n\n")) )
> 
> (defun gali-vconst ()
> (with-help-window (help-buffer)
> (gali-intro "gali-minicompl" "gali.el" )))

Have made the following test but the colour is not being activated

(defun sangali-defcon (vcname color)
  (insert (propertize vcname 'face '(:foreground color))) )






  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-13 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-13 22:20 Printing coloured strings in help-buffer Heime
2024-04-13 23:21 ` Heime [this message]
2024-04-14  6:55   ` Bruno Barbier

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