From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vitalie Spinu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Setting the background colour of a buffer or window Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:13:16 +0200 Organization: EUR Message-ID: <87hagawxnn.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372925618 12947 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2013 08:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 08:13:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 04 10:13:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Uuefa-000237-1o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 10:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuefZ-0001Hm-Gy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuefO-000135-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuefI-0004iz-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ea0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::22b]:64819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UuefI-0004im-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 04:13:20 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ea0-f171.google.com with SMTP id m14so600552eaj.30 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:13:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:organization:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=ePG5Fy1YTHlEFc5iz+7vKv2mjGFdKTq0qFEpPm8ibD8=; b=DWEZNRYnClzcFpIgFgUWgPqNGvhKr/fZK5Pa6uze4eevKlGeshAFpYvOOyoWIXPP+n vBrKofQOllmPmhikBdgD9yi6//aUpLOIJxf/KhpB55mA1Ci9eaNpq6JZISTBMwmH26YE GuXvICQ9/kXeH7dvDLZv4DxUeXgELmK4AqexfgL6pRwfrgk/pVk778fNblNQCIG5SzOK GUvv5o8fMLrhvjWsqBp52/rpfPjUrix0Teq7Qz/COSctx78siRkwbqvQEyS8Nv+oARR0 ZeKs0hQ6F96YCx+S70ePuyIUPYn6sC+PzOrmsbSkLAeidPoLbYiO6Tloeg7Cta6nXaM9 z3mw== X-Received: by 10.14.202.70 with SMTP id c46mr5411671eeo.28.1372925598907; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (dhcp-077-249-018-128.chello.nl. [77.249.18.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y1sm3371938eew.3.2013.07.04.01.13.17 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:13:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:32:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4013:c01::22b X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161514 Archived-At: >> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen >> on Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:32:21 +0200 wrote: > For eww, it would be really, really nice if it were possible to set the > background colour of the buffer. That would be much more natural than > putting the background colour over every character in the buffer with > text properties. Face remap is a generic way to achieve this sort of things: (face-remap-add-relative 'default :background "pink") Vitalie