From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neal Becker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I don't understand enriched text Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:11:04 -0400 Message-ID: <201108041011.04845.ndbecker2@gmail.com> References: <817h6t2s5m.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312488126 27741 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 20:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:02:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 22:02:02 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp47G-0002sI-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:02:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60101 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qp47F-0001YZ-SL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:02:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49174) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoydo-0005qZ-CQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoydn-0003iw-6R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:57953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qoydn-0003ip-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so1367169qwa.0 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:11:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=2ZtabbpqpRgSo95RBLjbcn8f5vxuQ6bWLItwKsiGDM0=; b=Ryurd+N7gHhEvFF57XezR2E4YfK2XU6ejlk5Uv8VqXHw7IRxEIuQeqRzLWAJfU6s/z Ca8EQrSaCmJIPHRxHae0/FkHA/mmq9nkPiPfVOWaEpSdu2T+guSDVxVUyYSXRML4mBIL O6pwnL7dq+Bc9r5qyYy94YC0StwWga/UgFsig= Original-Received: by 10.224.217.4 with SMTP id hk4mr652669qab.250.1312467073642; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from nbecker1.localnet ([139.85.237.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cg10sm1005638qab.8.2011.08.04.07.11.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:11:12 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <817h6t2s5m.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:01:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81880 Archived-At: On Thursday, August 04, 2011, Jambunathan K wrote: > Neal Becker writes: > > I open test.txt, and put it in enriched mode: M-x enriched-mode > > > > Now I type 'hello world' into the buffer. Then select the text. > > > > Now how would I, for example, make that text blue? > > From the menu bar, choose the color with Edit->Text > Properties->Foreground Color->blue and then start typing text. But 'Face', 'Foreground Color', and 'Background Color' are all disabled. > > > If I right click, text-properties, 'Face', 'Foreground color', > > 'Background color' are all disabled (grayed out). > > Mark the region and change the face as above. > > > How does this work? -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments