From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to attach properties to a piece of text?
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:11:29 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecf72aa9-c6b0-4d6d-9694-3e357755262a@w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877i2mgwmr.fsf@catnip.gol.com
On Mar 18, 5:54 pm, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote:
> However, note that if the buffer's mode uses font-lock, font-lock will
> _override_ any `face' property you set (to be its own); in a font-lock'd
> buffer, you can use the `font-lock-face' property instead:
>
> (put-text-property (point) (mark) 'font-lock-face '(:foreground "green"))
Great advice. That just happened to me after i put the function into
the package and tried to test it. Thanks.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 0:20 how to attach properties to a piece of text? Xah Lee
2009-03-19 0:54 ` Miles Bader
2009-03-19 3:19 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-19 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-03-19 13:11 ` Xah Lee [this message]
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