Re: Making text invisible

[David Kastrup]

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> I'd like to make some text invisible. I do want to use defface since
> the user might not want this text to be invisible. I just want the
> default to be invisible.
>
> One thing I thought of was to define the text's face with the same
> foreground as the default's background, as in:
>
>     (defface mh-folder-sent-to-me-hint
>       '((t
>          (:foreground (face-attribute 'default :background)))))
>
> Unfortunately, defface expects the color to be a string.
>
> Thoughts?

(defface mh-folder-sent-to-me-hint
  `((t
      (:foreground ,(face-attribute 'default :background)))))

That takes the current default background color.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum