From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I remove effects of text properties in 'before-string Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:57:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tvyrabkk.fsf@gmail.com> <838tg3b27v.fsf@gnu.org> <87r2tv9knb.fsf@gmail.com> <834lqrayti.fsf@gnu.org> <87o9oz9hsn.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508763529 1602 195.159.176.226 (23 Oct 2017 12:58:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:58:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 14:58:38 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6cJP-0007Uy-7s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:58:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38624 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6cJW-0006fe-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6cJ6-0006fO-3r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6cJ2-0001mJ-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:58:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41435 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e6cJ1-0001kU-Um for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 08:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e6cIr-00049I-Pu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:58:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6rzDIJN2A3cb8EjAQMLPEdEqX7Q= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114612 Archived-At: > Hi, thanks for the code. It works! However, I tried to explicited set face > to '((t (:foreground "magenta" :weight bold :inherit default)) That's not a face. You're confusing the face-spec passed to `defface` with an actual face. You can use (setq ovstring (propertize "Hi, there!" 'face '((:foreground "magenta" :weight bold) default))) tho I'd recommend you use one of (defface foo-bar '((t (:foreground "magenta" :weight bold :inherit default)))) [...] (setq ovstring (propertize "Hi, there!" 'face 'foo-bar)) or (defface foo-bar '((t (:foreground "magenta" :weight bold)))) [...] (setq ovstring (propertize "Hi, there!" 'face '(foo-bar default))) -- Stefan