Re: setting the window background?

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Is it correct that there is a way to set the frame background but no way
>> to set the window background?
>
> Yes.  You don't set the background of a frame, you set the background
> of the frame's default face.  And faces are local to frames in Emacs.

... but can be overridden within a buffer, e.g.:

   ;; change background color
   (setq foo (face-remap-add-relative 'default '(:background "dark green")))
   ...
   ;; revert background color to default
   (face-remap-remove-relative foo)

Unfortunately there's a bug that causes the default face to not work
quite how one might want in this case -- the space after the last
position in the buffer is not changed.  However for some uses it may
be good enough.

-Miles

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