From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Face for questions in echo area Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:43:23 +1000 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87sk3alxys.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> References: <87iq47l2so.fsf@mundaneum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291848873 32350 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 22:54:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 22:54:33 +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 Dec 08 23:54:29 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQSu4-0004IE-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:54:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQSu3-0002J1-A2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:54:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.alt.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9U6tvxBhVCKMH/mwQJu2nBviFn0= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92ce155b.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=0m3>PH3iX\eOl^j[\5YH4nL?0kYOcDh@ji=VFiPm?<[e0^N4DeQ`aMcIhndn4oVl4`dYIkFWm`Lb` Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179957 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:76165 Archived-At: Sébastien Vauban writes: > Hello, > > Some time ago, on Windows (maybe that's a diff inserted by EmacsW32?), I had > the questions appearing in the echo area in color (orange). That made them > stand up over the rest, and was a good thing on big screens (where we > sometimes don't easily see questions appearing in the bottom). > > Though, I don't find how to setup such a thing in my Emacs 23 on Ubuntu 10.04. > Any hint? > > Best regards, > Seb The face you want is minibuffer-prompt Try M-x customize-face minibuffer-prompt Note that the list-faces-display is a useful command to list all the currently defined faces. You can see examples of each face and using the mouse or enter key, show the face definition or pull up a customize buffer for a specific face. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au