From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me>
To: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Colouring a cell within a table
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:40:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y1HeWs3bvUTbngVPFbcePqpZwcciXfQ2ojJLG4jWDT1mfM_Ue3hYE7m9q5Onh4l7svsc1JwKVOuH791j8tQnT98cxi5wrOSRjYhp2lzMI0c=@proton.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtavbavc.fsf@dataswamp.org>
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 at 12:47 PM, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> Yuri Khan 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.
> >
> > Why do you want to do this?
> >
> > In general, coloring parts of a document in predefined
> > colors is a bad thing to want. Users with a different color
> > theme than yours will have trouble reading the document.
> >
> > A better direction is to define a major mode for your class
> > of documents, a few faces, and fontification rules that find
> > fragments your users would want colored and apply those
> > faces. The user will be able to customize the faces to
> > their liking.
>
>
> The Emacs mode already has support for font lock
> (AKA "syntax highlighting" outside the Emacs world) for the
> desired document type. If a different or more tivoli than that
> is desired, configure it or add new font lock rules with
> `font-lock-add-keywords', e.g. (font-lock-add-keywords 'emacs-lisp-mode '( ("`.*'" . font-lock-reference-face)
> ("font-lock-builtin-face" . font-lock-builtin-face)
> ("font-lock-comment-delimiter-face" . font-lock-comment-delimiter-face)
> ("font-lock-comment-face" . font-lock-comment-face)
> ("font-lock-constant-face" . font-lock-constant-face)
> ("font-lock-doc-face" . font-lock-doc-face)
> ("font-lock-function-name-face" . font-lock-function-name-face)
> ("font-lock-keyword-face" . font-lock-keyword-face)
> ("font-lock-negation-char-face" . font-lock-negation-char-face)
> ("font-lock-preprocessor-face" . font-lock-preprocessor-face)
> ("font-lock-reference-face" . font-lock-reference-face)
> ("font-lock-regexp-grouping-backslash" . 'font-lock-regexp-grouping-backslash)
> ("font-lock-regexp-grouping-construct" . 'font-lock-regexp-grouping-construct)
> ("font-lock-string-face" . font-lock-string-face)
> ("font-lock-type-face" . font-lock-type-face)
> ("font-lock-variable-name-face" . font-lock-variable-name-face)
> ("font-lock-warning-face" . font-lock-warning-face)
> )
> t)
>
> Those faces are then, much like the Donald Trump supporters
> that stormed the Capitolium ...
How can make get a table cell to be coloured by defining faces?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-22 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-17 12:35 Colouring a cell within a table uzibalqa
2022-09-18 7:54 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-18 14:33 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-18 21:22 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-19 7:46 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-19 9:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-19 7:42 ` Jean Louis
2022-09-19 13:15 ` uzibalqa
2022-09-19 16:51 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-09-19 15:29 ` Yuri Khan
2022-09-19 16:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-22 13:40 ` uzibalqa [this message]
2022-09-19 16:33 ` Christopher Dimech
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