From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: face properties in messages Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:12:36 +0200 Message-ID: <8761y2m9ob.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> References: <20130528233524.4ba1fafc@gauss> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369818794 16149 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2013 09:13:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:13:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 29 11:13:12 2013 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 1UhcRU-0004Tj-5R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 11:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhcRT-0003qa-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 05:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhcRC-0003pr-HK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 05:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhcR5-0004JP-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 05:12:54 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54179) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhcR4-0004HT-Sr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 05:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UhcR3-00047T-ML for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 May 2013 11:12:45 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f56fae.versanet.de ([89.245.111.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 11:12:45 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f56fae.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 11:12:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f56fae.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:91124 Archived-At: On Tue, 28 May 2013 23:35:24 -0700 Joe Riel wrote: > How can I display a message in the echo area with a special face, to highlight it? > The elisp info states that text properties affect the display, but > the text and property appear literally, in the normal face. > For example > > (message (propertize "hello" 'face 'bold)) > > displays as > > #("hello" 0 5 (face bold)) See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/91018 Steve Berman