Re: preparing colored text

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jonathan Epstein wrote:

> I've read a lot about faces over the years, but there's something that
> I just don't get: how do I prepare some text which is colored in a
> specific way?
>
> E.g., suppose I have the following text in my Emacs buffer (say, the
> *Scratch* buffer):
>   Here is some sample text colored in different ways
>
> How can I make "Here is" red, "some sample" blue, "text" green,
> "colored in" red, and "different ways" blue ?
>
> The specific colors aren't important; an example using commonly
> available faces such as:
> font-lock-comment-face
> font-lock-keyword-face
> font-lock-warning-face
>
> would be fine too.

Global Bindings Starting With M-g:
key             binding
---             -------

M-g d           facemenu-set-default
M-g b           facemenu-set-bold
M-g i           facemenu-set-italic
M-g l           facemenu-set-bold-italic
M-g u           facemenu-set-underline
M-g o           facemenu-set-face


And see the "Formatted Text" and "Format Colors" nodes of the Emacs manual.

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