Re: change faces interactively

[ishi soichi]

Sorry for my poor explanation.

What I want is an interactive function that turns on/off face changes by command.

Say, a buffer is in "my-mode".  The above (define-generic-mode ... ) will AUTOMATICALLY apply the face definitions to all characters as soon as the buffer is opened (assuming the mode definition recognizes its file extension).

I would rather develop a function that applies the faces AT WILL even after the buffer is opened IN THAT MODE.  

For example, a buffer is in "my-mode" but none of the words in that buffer is applied with any faces.

Now I will implement a function, (defun my-mode-face-1 ()  (interactive)...), then a certain set of words in that buffer is bold-faced.  After that, I will implement another function, (defun my-mode-face-2 () (interactive) ...), then another set of the words in that buffer is italic-faced. And so on...

If it does not make sense, please ask me again.  I appreciate it.

soichi

2012/1/21 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>

> I'm trying to develop an interactive function that changes faces.
> For example, one way to change the face is
>

> ;;changes face of "think", "thinks", and "thought"
> (define-generic-mode my-mode
>   nil nil

>   '(("think?\\w*\\|thought" . 'org-warning)) nil nil)

>
> But this changes the face according to the mode, not the
> interactive command input.
>
> Is there anyway to develop an interactive function like that ?
> (defun change-face-to-one () (interactive) ...)

Not quite sure what you're asking.  Do you just want to modify a set of faces FS
so they look the same as some given face G?

If so, you can define a command that reads the names of the faces to modify (FS)
and the face to copy (G), and then, in the body of the function, call
`copy-face' to modify each of the former (each F in FS).