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