From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: can't figure out the name of the face Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:36:21 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <871tts7muy.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405039239 21322 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2014 00:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 02:40:33 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X5Ot5-0003CL-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 02:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5Ot4-0002Ta-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tld/2n88vRe/FrxDQ4AVUId4AT8= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206367 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:98637 Archived-At: Jai Dayal writes: > I simply want to change the color of the text that > displays the file-name in the mode-line of a > non-active buffer, however, I have no idea what this > face is called. In situations such as this - do `M-x describe-face RET' and then write some probable prefix (as in "mode-line") and hit TAB: mode-line mode-line-buffer-id mode-line-emphasis mode-line-highlight mode-line-inactive I think mode-line and mode-line-inactive are those that apply for your question. -- underground experts united