Re: Colouring a cell within a table

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

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* uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> [2022-09-18 17:34]:
> ------- Original Message -------
> 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.

Find attached enriched mode text file, and open it with Emacs, you should see colors in the table.

-- 
Jean

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