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From: Deepak Ramani <dvramani@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interrogating which face is being used
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:02:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81hbxb70wo.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2698.1247843246.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:07:18 -0400, Tim Visher wrote:

> I'm wondering if it's possible to interrogate the entity under point
> to discover which face is currently being used to control its display.

You might consider the following function, which you can bind to any key
you want:

(defun describe-face-at-point ()
  "Return face used at point."
  (interactive)
  (get-char-property (point) 'face))

-Deepak


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-17 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2698.1247843246.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-17 15:13 ` Interrogating which face is being used henry atting
2009-07-17 16:02 ` Deepak Ramani [this message]
2009-07-17 15:07 Tim Visher
2009-07-17 15:11 ` Andy Stewart
2009-07-17 22:22   ` Tim Visher
2009-07-17 15:49 ` Bastien

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