# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 970994611 0 # Node ID 5428e8f8fbdae2578a5db501eefdd46cb079104c # Parent 4e5cd8d289c97f576491d8c79992c70a768c113e (Font Lock): Explain how to customize Font Lock faces. (Faces): Document set-face-foreground and set-face-background. diff -r 4e5cd8d289c9 -r 5428e8f8fbda man/frames.texi --- a/man/frames.texi Sun Oct 08 06:51:37 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/frames.texi Sun Oct 08 08:43:31 2000 +0000 @@ -715,10 +715,11 @@ the X resource @samp{menuBarLines} to control the initial setting of Menu Bar mode. @xref{Resources X}. +@kindex C-Mouse-3@r{, when menu bar is turned off} Expert users often turn off the menu bar, especially on text-only terminals, where this makes one additional line available for text. If the menu bar is off, you can still pop up a menu of its contents with -@kbd{c-mouse-3} on a display which supports popup menus. @xref{Menu +@kbd{C-mouse-3} on a display which supports popup menus. @xref{Menu Mouse Clicks}. @xref{Menu Bar}, for information on how to invoke commands with the @@ -781,6 +782,15 @@ @xref{Face Customization}. You can also use X resources to specify attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources X}). +@cindex face colors, setting +@findex set-face-foreground +@findex set-face-background + Alternatively, you could change the foreground and background colors +of a specific face with @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} and @kbd{M-x +set-face-background}. These commands prompt in the minibuffer for a +face name and a color name, with completion, and then setup that face to +use the specified color. + @findex list-faces-display To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type @kbd{M-x list-faces-display}. It's possible for a given face to look @@ -895,6 +905,22 @@ (global-font-lock-mode 1) @end example + To change the colors or the fonts used by Font Lock mode to fontify +different parts of text, you can use one of the following: + +@itemize @bullet +@item +Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background} to +change the colors of a particular face, such as +@code{font-lock-variable-name-face}, used by Font Lock. @xref{Faces}. +The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all the faces +currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock. + +@item +Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as +described in @ref{Face Customization}. +@end itemize + @kindex M-g M-g @findex font-lock-fontify-block In Font Lock mode, when you edit the text, the highlighting updates