From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antis Lathoi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to customize the face of echo area messages? Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 06:07:33 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <546808c5-7160-4732-b8f6-b1d0d5d5e4c3@j25g2000vbs.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293988934 3385 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2011 17:22:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 17:22:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 18:22:08 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PZRdA-0002RJ-6H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:22:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PZRd9-0001tS-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:22:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j25g2000vbs.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.83.138.150 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1293977254 8809 127.0.0.1 (2 Jan 2011 14:07:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 14:07:34 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j25g2000vbs.googlegroups.com; posting-host=178.83.138.150; posting-account=X5LNsAoAAADTxXfqvFeeRopYOgPyYM4K User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101211 Gentoo Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:183843 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:21:12 -0500 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:78057 Archived-At: Hi, I'm trying to change the appearance of messages that appear in the echo area when you perform certain actions in emacs (e.g. saving files --> "wrote FOOBAR", CTRL-g --> "quit"). By default these messages are printed exactly the same way as buffer text is. I'd like to change that (different foreground color), but didn't find anything within the emacs customize system to do that. Ideas anyone? Thanks Antis