From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Red background color when editing a file as root (using TRAMP)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:14:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijtza9uwgy.fsf@remote1.student.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1226671257.585790@arno.fh-trier.de
Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>> Nordlöw wrote:
>>> How do I buffer-locally set the background color?
>>
>> You can't: background color is a frame parameter, so it can be set
>> local to each frame but not each buffer.
>>
>
> You can fake it with an overlay. But this works only on the non-empty
> parts of a buffer.
>
> (let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max) (current-buffer) nil t)))
> (overlay-put ov 'face '(:background "red")))
In Emacs 23 you can use
(set (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)
'((default (:background "red"))))
(which has the same limitation).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 6:48 Red background color when editing a file as root (using TRAMP) Nordlöw
2008-11-14 9:06 ` Paul R
[not found] ` <mailman.337.1226653574.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-14 11:04 ` Nordlöw
2008-11-14 13:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.348.1226668233.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-14 13:59 ` Andreas Politz
2008-11-15 10:14 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
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