Questions tagged [customize-face]
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custom-set-faces not working for client
I have a custom (custom-set-faces ...) section in my ~/.emacs file. When I run emacs this section seems to get completely ignored since the custom colours don't get set. But if I go to ~/.emacs, highlight the section and run it with M-x eval-region…

Jan Stolarek
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Dired+ : Not change foreground color of compress files
Emacs 27.1
package Dired+, Version: 2023.01.14
Here screen
As you can see the foreground of suffix compress file is correct (orange). Nice.
But the foreground of name compress file is not change (must be blue).
Why?

a_subscriber
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Lisp Mode Documentation Syntax color change?
I use emacs for common lisp development. I noticed that the documentation string for functions is white and makes it hard for me to read.
Is there a way for me to change the color of this string?
Edit:
I am using doom-themes doom-gruvbox.
in the…

Vinn
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Disable Fontification in Org-Mode while Keeping Color Highlighting
I would like to ask a question about org-mode and font-lock-mode.
I just started using Emacs and, since I am not a programmer, I use it
mostly for writing and handling texts. And, I am quite interested in
org-mode because I heard it is the best tool…

bman25
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bookmark+ highlighting problem
I am trying to use bookmark+, but I am unable to get the highlighting as I wish (or, maybe, as I wrongly expect?):
When I change the default highlight of a bookmark, I only see the purple flag, but never the colored file name (e.g. tt)
I do see…

scfrank
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Incompatible faces error
I'm trying to set my ediff faces to reuse some of the magit faces. The ediff colors are not very good in the dark mode I'm using. But I'm getting an error about compatibility. I found this error message in custom.el.
ediff/:config: Incompatible…

Todd
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How can I disable font-latex-math-face?
In AUCTex there is font-latex-math-face which makes color of string in between $ and $ as green.
Example output:
or:
Is is possible to disable/delete font-latex-math-face, where the green color won't apply?
Could be related to: How to delete a…

alper
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Occur mode face for buffer names
The result buffer of occur displays the buffer name with some info:
69 matches in 65 lines for "use" in buffer: init.el
It's alright when I run occur in only one buffer.
I just started using multi-occur (rather projectile-multi-occur), thus getting…

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emacs 28.0.50 `sh-quoted-exec` has different coloring for `sh` and `bash`
In Shell-script[bash] mode, coloring differs for sh-quoted-exec in #!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash.
If #!/bin/sh is the first line: // I prefert this
If #!/bin/bash is the first line:
Would it be possible to have same coloring in sh for bash?

alper
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GUI emacs: What Face Defines Overlay for Truncated Lines in Margin?
I am currently using the emacs GUI.
I have a custom theme defined for a particular buffer, but when the text runs over the line, an overlay takes over (presumably handling truncation) in the margins. I'm having trouble finding the name of this…

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Would it be possible to disable flycheck selected region on mark?
When I selected a region Ctrl-space up-arrow key, flycheck errors' font color are remain as it is.
Example, flycheck error makes fore-color bold orange:
Would it be possible to disable flychecks when a region is highlighted? Since highlight color…

alper
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How to define different font-lock-variable-name-face respect to different modes
By default font-lock-variable-name-face is defined as follows:
'(font-lock-variable-name-face ((t (:foreground "black" :weight bold))))
Would it be possible to change its color for different modes such as for shell-mode:
I have tried the following,…

alper
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Color settings with helm
I use helm a lot. I have a problem setting colors. In my init.el I have
(require 'helm)
(require 'helm-config)
;; change active line color
(set-face-attribute 'helm-selection nil
:background "red"
:foreground…

PinkCollins
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Flymake colouring?
I've recently updated my Emacs from 26 to 27, and now the Flymake error indicators are very hard to see - they're now in a very pale rose instead of crimson red. How can I change the colour back? I've searched the documentation and also looked at…

user29402
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Font Size (Face Attributes, Height) in Org Mode's Column View
Happy New Year!
I use Org Mode and columnview extensively. The issue I am having is that zooming (Command + on MacOs or C- + on PC) doesn't work in column view. Here is an example before zooming in
Now, here is the view after zooming in (using C-…

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