From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Buffer-specific face overrides Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:45:09 +0000 (UTC) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093537910 31657 80.91.224.253 (26 Aug 2004 16:31:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:31:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 18:31:35 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0N9z-0007V8-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:31:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0NEb-000536-Oe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:36:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0NEK-0004yV-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C0NEI-0004xd-EY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C0NEI-0004xY-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C0N9c-00013V-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0N9W-0007AM-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:31:10 +0200 Original-Received: from 195.8.190.164 ([195.8.190.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:31:06 +0200 Original-Received: from pf_moore by 195.8.190.164 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:31:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 195.8.190.164 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)) 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20302 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20302 Is there a way in Emacs to specify the value of a face on a buffer-local basis? I know this is possible in XEmacs using specifiers, but these are not available (AFAICT) in Gnu Emacs, and I haven't found an equivalent. As an example of what I want to achieve, I'd like to set the background colour of the *scratch* buffer to something different from the colour I use for other buffers. I've checked the manuals and the FAQs (including the Windows one) and searched via Google (but it's hard to know what search terms to use) and haven't been able to find anything. My Emacs version is GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) running on Windows 2000 (and also XP Pro). It's not a big deal, but it's something I haven't been able to transfer over from my XEmacs setup so far. Thanks for any help, Paul.