From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to font lock buffer name starts with space Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:16:37 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1191014197.092646.319770@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191015647 9423 80.91.229.12 (28 Sep 2007 21:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 28 23:40:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IbNZY-0006AY-5O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IbNZU-0002Hy-GN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.21.201.198 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1191014197 12769 127.0.0.1 (28 Sep 2007 21:16:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:16:37 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 fw.datacom-telematica.com.br:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.21.201.198; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152457 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47966 Archived-At: On Sep 28, 4:33 pm, j...@pobox.com (John Paul Wallington) wrote: > "Ye Wenbin" writes: > > But it turns that the font lock is inhibit for the buffer name starts > > with space. > > How to active font-lock for that buffer? > > That's tricky because skipping hidden buffers is hard-coded in the > `font-lock-mode' function. Interactively, I guess you could rename > the buffer at an opportune moment using M-x rename-buffer or a piece > of advice like so (largely untested): > > (defadvice font-lock-mode (around fontify-hidden-buffers compile activate) > "Allow hidden buffers." > (let ((original-buffer-name (buffer-name)) > new-buffer-name) > (unwind-protect > (progn > (setq new-buffer-name > (generate-new-buffer-name original-buffer-name)) > (rename-buffer new-buffer-name) > ad-do-it) > (rename-buffer original-buffer-name)))) I know its not the answer for your question, but maybe it would be interesting for you to start using Ido for switching buffers? Then you can choose which ones to hide from the list like this: (setq ido-ignore-buffers '("^ " "^\\*" "^\\#" "muse$")) ;; ignore *Messages* etc Here is a link: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings HTH, weber