Re: Buffer-specific face overrides

[Kevin Rodgers]

John Robot wrote:
> And what about the fact of having another background color for
> some buffers, by default?
>
> For example : being able to say that the *shell* buffers will
> always be with a dark background, or stuff like that?

Since the set-face-ATTRIBUTE user function and the set-face-attribute
utility function accept an optional FRAME argument, you can do so on a
frame-by-frame basis.  Not to mention, background-color is a frame
parameter, which is frame-specific by definition.

So if you're willing to run your *shell* buffer in your own frame,
voila:

(setq special-display-buffer-names
      (cons "*shell*" special-display-buffer-names))

(let ((special-display-frame-alist
       (cons '(background-color . "dark") special-display-frame-alist)))
  (shell))

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Kevin Rodgers