From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting the background color of the minibuffer Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:30:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oarcrvu7.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3w7v6da.fsf@gnu.org> <87k31zscax.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418229101 15605 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 16:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:31:41 +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 10 17:31:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1XykAm-0003zC-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:31:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XykAl-00028g-QN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:31:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XykAS-00027n-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:31:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XykAE-0007lT-7l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XykAD-0007kx-W5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:30:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XykAC-0003cr-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:30:56 +0100 Original-Received: from 23-91-147-37.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.147.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:30:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-147-37.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:30:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-147-37.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:bPnJapuHamNIyBwDreOGXHKt1SQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101505 Archived-At: > That works as advertised: the background changes when you are working on > the minibuffer. > However, I want the background changed permanently. So I tried: That's because when the minibuffer is not active, the mini window does not display any "minibuffer" but it displays the "echo area buffer" instead (of which there are two). So you'll probably want to set face-remapping-alist in " *Echo Area 0*" and " *Echo Area 1*". Stefan