When using npm in M-x term, it generate color message like this (even with -q) : Information from what-cursor-position There are text properties here: font-lock-face (:foreground "red3" :backgr...

I've been developing my own custom color theme, and it'd be really useful if I could get a list of font-faces affecting the text under the cursor. Something like Textmate's show current scope comm...

Is there any way to define a face in Emacs (e.g. highlight such as hl-line) so that it only changes the background color (and have Emacs use the foreground color as if the word was not highlighted)...

I'm just starting to learn Python and use Emacs as my editor. Currently, Emacs uses the same color for normal strings (single quotes) and docstrings (triple quotes). I want docstrings to be a diffe...

I want to change the face attribute in Org-Agenda buffer only. So I need to change Org-Agenda face attribute buffer locally. Here is my code: (which is globally) (defun my-org-agenda-hl-line () ...

I also want to save the font size in my .emacs file.

I have a function that sets Emacs' color theme to a theme defined by myself. In this function I do: (set-face-attribute 'default cur-frame :foreground fg-color :background bg-color) I then set t...

this is in my .emacs can I mess with it or not? (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom. ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful. ;; Your init f...

How do you change the default face which Emacs uses to style text on a per-mode basis? For example, say that I am already happy with the face customizations that I have, which include a default fi...

If I run emacs --daemon (in .xinitrc or later) and then emacsclient -c, newly created frame has black cursor color, regardless on colortheme or any other settings. More exactly, before I type anyth...

How can I adjust the term face in the new Emacs to get the same control that was possible with ansi-term-color-vector? One of the new features in Emacs 24.3 seems to be that it revamps the mechani...

Problem solved I decided to use a scale customized font named Ricty. It was a easier way. -- I'm setting Emacs font size by using face-font-rescale-alist like followings. (create-fontset-from-a...

I like to see if there is a way to change the mode-link foreground and background color base on the major-mode, I was thinking to add the logic in the (add-hook 'after-change-major-mode-hook B...

Strike-through texts (like this: +text+) in Org-mode are black by default. I want to make them gray. The problem is, I can't find the place to customize it. I've tried M=x describe-face, and the re...

Every now and then I run into a situation when I need to email a piece of code from emacs. When I paste text into my email program (not emacs), all the color highlighting is lost. This is especiall...

I'm getting the error Unable to load color "unspecified-bg" [16 times] when using emacsclient -c. I've started up emacs using emacs --daemon. This seems to mean that my custom faces won't load. Wh...

I'm trying to switch to Emacs from Vim for a few months and faced the strange problem: when font-lock is on, scrolling in emacs becomes very slow. Example of relevant part of config: (require 'vim...

Admittedly, this is something of a first world problem, but I'm sort of picky about the appearance of the display, and I find it really annoying when some mode sets a new font size, family, bold/it...

On this page discussing font lock mode, an example is provided which highlights a custom pattern: (add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda () (font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("\\<\\(FIXME\\):" 1 font-l...

I'm trying to add functionality found in some other code editors to my Emacs configuration, whereby C/C++ code within #if 0...#endif blocks is automatically set to the comment face/font. Based on m...

I want to display a colored string of text in the minibuffer, but when I use the 'message' function, the text-properties of are stripped.