outline-mode: change color setting

outline-mode: change color setting

[Karl Voit]

Hi!

Someone bought me 'Learning GNU Emacs' and I am very happy to learn
new tricks in my favourite editor. In one chapter, there is some
explanation of the outline-mode and I already managed to modify the
outline-regexp to meet my requirements in some files.

But unfortunately, the color highlighting is not optimal. I prefer
black background in my xterm and this is not good with (dark)blue
which my emacs (21) uses for some outlines.

So how can I modify this behaviour? (e.g. blue->lightblue)
Do I have to set some variables or do I have to modify the code for
the outline-mode?

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Karl VOIT, Graz University of Technology (Austria/Europe)

Re: outline-mode: change color setting

[Kevin Rodgers]

Karl Voit wrote:

> But unfortunately, the color highlighting is not optimal. I prefer
> black background in my xterm and this is not good with (dark)blue
> which my emacs (21) uses for some outlines.
> 
> So how can I modify this behaviour? (e.g. blue->lightblue)
> Do I have to set some variables or do I have to modify the code for
> the outline-mode?

Looking at outline.el, it apparently uses the font-lock faces.  So
customize whichever face is suboptimal.


-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: outline-mode: change color setting

[Hugh Lawson]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Karl Voit wrote:
> 
> > But unfortunately, the color highlighting is not optimal. I prefer
> > black background in my xterm and this is not good with (dark)blue
> > which my emacs (21) uses for some outlines.
> > So how can I modify this behaviour? (e.g. blue->lightblue)
> > Do I have to set some variables or do I have to modify the code for
> > the outline-mode?
> 
> Looking at outline.el, it apparently uses the font-lock faces.  So
> customize whichever face is suboptimal.

Sometimes in figuring this out, the following command is helpful:

M-x list-text-properties-at

If I enter this with point (called cursor in some other programs) on
the word 'suboptimal' above, this  is returned:

face                 message-cited-text-face
fontified            t

This tells me that the face 'message-cited-text-face' is the one to
customize if I don't like the looks of the quoted lines.

-- 
Hugh Lawson

Re: outline-mode: change color setting

[Martin Stemplinger]

On Mit Dez 10 2003 at 18:29, Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> wrote:

> M-x list-text-properties-at
>
Sounds very useful but my emacs (GNU emacs 21.3.50) doesn't know this
command :-(. 

Any idea why?
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Re: outline-mode: change color setting

[Hugh Lawson]

Martin Stemplinger <mstemplingerNOSPAM@gmx.de> writes:

> On Mit Dez 10 2003 at 18:29, Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > M-x list-text-properties-at
> >
> Sounds very useful but my emacs (GNU emacs 21.3.50) doesn't know this
> command :-(. 
> 

Sorry I don't know.  On my Debian emacs21 package it's defined in:

/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/facemenu.el
/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/facemenu.elc


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Hugh Lawson

Re: outline-mode: change color setting

[Stefan Monnier]

>> M-x list-text-properties-at
>> 
> Sounds very useful but my emacs (GNU emacs 21.3.50) doesn't know this
> command :-(. 

> Any idea why?

Try C-h N and it will tell you.


        Stefan


PS: Try also C-u C-x = to get what you want.

Re: outline-mode: change color setting

[Martin Stemplinger]

On Don Dez 11 2003 at 15:58, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> Try C-h N and it will tell you.
Very interesting reading indeed!

> PS: Try also C-u C-x = to get what you want.

Great! Thanks a lot.
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