Re: change the background color of a single window

[Dieter Wilhelm]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> is it possible to change the background color of a single window?
>
> No (if you mean the same thing by "window" as Emacs does). There are

Yes, sometimes I'm precise 8-).

> no buffer/window local faces (yet[1]). Faces can be frame local
> though.

Sigh, thank you anyway, you spared me the hassle to look further.

> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2004-05/msg00137.html

Thank you Johan for the pointer but it's just a minor gripe for me (I
wanted to show a helper window in the frame with another background to
distinguish the windows better while saving the mode line space); I'll
stay with the stock (CVS) Emacs.

-- 
    Best wishes

    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany