From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: `message' function with propertized string Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:17:22 -0800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143742686 11671 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2006 18:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 30 20:18:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FP1iN-0004qM-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:17:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FP1iN-0005Ij-4f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FP1iB-0005Ff-QM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FP1iA-0005DV-2n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FP1i9-0005DS-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:17:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [148.87.113.118] (helo=rgminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1FP1kN-0001dA-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:19:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.50]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.6/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id k2UIHSwT021177 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:17:28 -0700 Original-Received: from rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id k2UIHSeT028947 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:17:28 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw301.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with SMTP id k2UIHRfr028932 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:17:27 -0700 Original-To: "Help-Gnu-Emacs" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:34083 Archived-At: The doc of function `message' says that its string argument(s) can have `face' properties and these will affect the appearance of the message. From the Emacs 22 ELisp manual: If STRING, or strings among the ARGUMENTS, have `face' text properties, these affect the way the message is displayed. Can someone explain how to do use `message' to display a message with faces showing on different parts of the string? I tried this: (message (propertize "foobar toto" 'face 'highlight)) and this: (setq foo "foobar toto") (add-text-properties 0 (length foo) '(face highlight) foo) (message foo) But the message displayed didn't show the face. It just showed the write syntax of a propertized string: #("foobar toto" 0 11 (face highlight)) What am I missing? (I've tried with a June 2005 CVS snapshot and also with Emacs 21.3.1.)