Re: Setting the background colour of a buffer or window

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:

> There still apparently isn't a way to set the background colour of a
> buffer (or a window)?  You have to set the background colour of the
> entire frame?

You can do something like

  emacs -Q
  c-x 2
  c-h N
  c-x o
  M-: (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist) <RET>
  M-: (push '(default (:background "blue")) face-remapping-alist) <RET>

So you have a different default background for the buffer (not the window).

See doc of `face-remapping-alist'.

     J