Re: find face in use at point

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:26:15 -0600:
> I used to know how to do this:

> Find the name of the face in use at point.

> Especially in gnus message headers, then with that information one
> could go to customize-apropos, plug in the name and go diretly to that
> customization buffer.

> Anyone know what command I'm thinking of?  My search strings in M-x
> apropos have not born fruit.

Hi, Harry!

I don't think there is any such function, as such.  There is a command
which returns all properties at point.  I bind it to C-c p thusly:

  (global-set-key [?\C-c ?p] 'list-text-properties-at)

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