From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Faces? Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 17:14:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3fc1ce72-8764-336b-7890-fb9f2a279a5a@gmail.com> <83mu4jxkz4.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13007"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:FohEqZHhOJ0tOOCyLX4j9/oIU5Q= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 04 18:03:02 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jrkd4-0003Hk-9r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:03:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34560 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrkd3-0004CL-B5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44844) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrkaL-0001tK-6k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:00:13 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:43740 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jrkaH-0004NW-Kx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 12:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jrkaA-00007T-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Jul 2020 18:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/07/04 12:00:04 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -8 X-Spam_score: -0.9 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123496 Archived-At: Douglas Lewan [2020-07-01 16:51:52] wrote: > Thanks for all the help. It turns out the door into what I want is the two > functions (add-face-text-property) and (face-list) (or M-x > list-faces-display). From there I'm sure I can begin to do more > sophisticated things. `face-list` and `list-faces-display` should be used sparingly: you should usually either use a face you already now or one you created yourself on purpose. The appearance of each face can change drastically depending on the user's preferences, so don't rely on `list-faces-display` too much. Stefan