Re: Changing background color of an emacs window

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Xah wrote:
> On May 22, 8:25 am, Corey Foote <coreyfo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> «When an Emacs frame is split into several windows, is there a way to
> change the background color (and perhaps other visual properties) of
> one window without changing the others?»
>
> I'm not aware a mode or default way to do it. But what you can do is
> write a function that changes current window bg color, to the post-
> command-hook.
>
> (defun change-bg-color-on-split ()
>   (let ((cmd this-command))
>     (when (string-equal cmd "split-window-vertically")
>       (set-background-color "#ffe4c4"))))
>
> (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'change-bg-color-on-split)


Unfortunately that does not change the bg color of the whole Emacs 
frame, not just the current Emacs window.

There has been a little bit talk about implementing background colors 
etc per buffer on Emacs devel, but so far no one has done anything to 
implement it as far as I know.

There is one workaround, I just added this to EmacsWiki

 http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BufferBackgroundColor