From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/36619 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Setting face, foreground and background color from Edit menu (Emacs 20.7) Date: 06 Jun 2001 01:02:19 +0200 Sender: alex@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172173 9538 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:49:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:49:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 9845 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2001 21:29:50 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.datacomm.ch (HELO flu-smtp-01.datacomm.ch) (212.40.5.52) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Jun 2001 21:29:50 -0000 Original-Received: from snail.nowhere.ch (line375.datacomm.ch [212.254.1.195]) by flu-smtp-01.datacomm.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f56LTkU16307 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:29:47 +0200 Original-Received: (from alex@localhost) by snail.nowhere.ch (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) id f55N2K501849; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:02:20 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: snail.nowhere.ch: alex set sender to alex@gnu.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36619 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:36619 In message mode on Emacs 20.7, I use the following menu: Edit -> Text Properties -> Background color -> other This prompts me for a Background color: I answer "red" and get the following error: Face bg:red not configured for Message mode I think this will not have any effect in message mode as we are using font-lock, anyway. Should that part of the menu therefore be disabled? It seems that setting the face, foreground and background color will all cause an error. Note that adding justification, or making text invisible, does in fact work. Alex. -- http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/emacs.html http://www.emacswiki.org/