From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to customize a face? (Docs don't help) Date: 31 Oct 2002 11:02:11 +0900 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036029802 10926 80.91.224.249 (31 Oct 2002 02:03:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:03:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1874g4-0002ps-00 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 03:03:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1874gb-0002mo-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:03:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1874fD-00082z-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:02:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1874fB-00081o-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:02:26 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1874fA-00081i-00; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:02:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.195]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g9V22Ml20188; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:22 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g9V22HJ15913; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:21 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g9V22B205519; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:16 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g9V22BB29878; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 4EDA636FF; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:11 +0900 (JST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3149 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3149 Da Witch writes: > If I do M-x customize-face, and I'm prompted for the name of the face > to customize, the default answer is "all", which is much less helpful > a default answer than the name of the face the point is currently on. > The mode I'm currently using has about one dozen faces, and I can't > tell from their names what most of them correspond to. FWIW, the CVS version of emacs has changed the `customize-face' command so that the default is whatever face is underneath point... So I guess other people had the same problem. -Miles -- `Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life' (from _A Pattern Language_)