From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to attach properties to a piece of text?
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:54:36 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i2mgwmr.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3f3f751a-a93a-4de6-a306-bf5f47bc9fea@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
> i haven't studied emacs's face, display property etc systems. But
> could anyone give me a rough guide on what function i should use or
> lookup?
`put-text-property'
In particular, you may want the :foreground attribute of the `face'
property.
E.g. try evaluating the following:
(put-text-property (point) (mark) 'face '(:foreground "green"))
However, note that if the buffer's mode uses font-lock, font-lock will
_override_ any `face' property you set (to be its own); in a font-lock'd
buffer, you can use the `font-lock-face' property instead:
(put-text-property (point) (mark) 'font-lock-face '(:foreground "green"))
-Miles
--
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a
cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 0:20 how to attach properties to a piece of text? Xah Lee
2009-03-19 0:54 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-03-19 3:19 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-19 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2009-03-19 13:11 ` Xah Lee
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