From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: preparing colored text Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:10:55 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E8B35BF.5050206@yahoo.com> References: <27e4d2e8.0304020942.52ae37ad@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049311318 24896 80.91.224.249 (2 Apr 2003 19:21:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 19:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 21:21:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 190no5-0006TP-00 for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 21:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 190nht-0005ow-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:15:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1049310651 5109630 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111614 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8114 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8114 Jonathan Epstein wrote: > I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that > I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a > specific way? > > E.g., suppose I have the following text in my Emacs buffer (say, the > *Scratch* buffer): > Here is some sample text colored in different ways > > How can I make "Here is" red, "some sample" blue, "text" green, > "colored in" red, and "different ways" blue ? > > The specific colors aren't important; an example using commonly > available faces such as: > font-lock-comment-face > font-lock-keyword-face > font-lock-warning-face > > would be fine too. Global Bindings Starting With M-g: key binding --- ------- M-g d facemenu-set-default M-g b facemenu-set-bold M-g i facemenu-set-italic M-g l facemenu-set-bold-italic M-g u facemenu-set-underline M-g o facemenu-set-face And see the "Formatted Text" and "Format Colors" nodes of the Emacs manual. -- Kevin Rodgers