From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre LAURENT <shaoner@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overriding some face attributes without changing the default(s) one(s)
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 10:55:08 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4x9gqer.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC8hHhnjZOupFp-xGq2E16R3vkyAKqj43efoeTBskzEzVhwzZA@mail.gmail.com> (Alexandre LAURENT's message of "Fri, 6 Jun 2014 13:32:41 +0200")
Alexandre LAURENT (2014-06-06 15:32 +0400) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to customize the whitespace-mode face for "long" lines.
> By default, a specific face is defined for long lines but it is kind
> of ugly in my case.
> I would actually like these lines to look the same color as usual with
> weight = bold, i.e. keeping the syntax highlighting (keywords,
> strings, function names, etc.), but overriding weight or underline
> attributes.
>
> From http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Face-Attributes.html,
> it seems that setting some attributes to undefined "tells Emacs to
> refer to a parent face", but not sure what the parent is in this case
> anyway.
>
> Moreover, if I don't set foreground / background at all, these are
> just resets to the default face (I suppose).
>
> Since there are multiple different faces for syntax highlighting, and
> only one for long lines, I'm not sure that this is even possible. But
> if it is, any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
I'm not sure I understand the question, but you can customize any face
like this:
M-x customize-face whitespace-line
or a whole group:
M-x customize-group whitespace
If you need to do it with elisp, try the following:
(set-face-attribute 'whitespace-line nil :background 'unspecified :weight 'bold)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-07 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-06 11:32 Overriding some face attributes without changing the default(s) one(s) Alexandre LAURENT
2014-06-07 6:55 ` Alex Kost [this message]
2014-06-07 18:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-06-07 23:09 ` Alexandre LAURENT
2014-06-08 6:02 ` Alex Kost
2014-06-08 20:23 ` Alexandre LAURENT
2014-06-09 6:26 ` Alex Kost
2014-06-09 18:10 ` Alexandre LAURENT
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