From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Change Face of Tab Character? Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:28:07 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87eirhumx4.fsf@iki.fi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250088067 13321 80.91.229.12 (12 Aug 2009 14:41:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:41:07 +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 Aug 12 16:41:00 2009 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 4.50) id 1MbF0d-00068p-4U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MbF0b-0003Xr-2T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18OBAB8WQq60LjDg1raEqDXaeo31enJm9wI6dE8jE3XFqXwbNqaFeVYi+xP0TU9a2bSkqcYaUJ2lWAnkQ4CHS4l8lVFp7zNtYVwS0B20cLkYWxGczT8glguR7ScQ7l5qgf6CqTrxWgoxXR8v3+UQ2+R Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@eternal-september.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:36:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/T1KcyvR6jlub42Xxdj1AW+Ez/YZocHXLym45O/vX0vw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:DlDuUCXQyDZB1NAKi+lHy16GI2M= sha1:qiOTMI/KON2NY85uymcRpfYkySc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171909 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:67082 Archived-At: On 2009-08-12 10:09 (-0400), Tim Visher wrote: > I'd like to change the face of a tab character to have red background. M-x customize-group RET whitespace RET Then edit the "whitespace-tab" face so that its background is red. Turn on the whitespace-mode: (let ((whitespace-style '(tabs))) (whitespace-mode 1)) Not sure if there is more elegant solution. I made this up pretty quickly. :-)