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;;; buffer-bg.el --- Changing background color of windows
;;
;; Author: Lennart Borgman (lennart O borgman A gmail O com)
;; Created: 2008-05-22T19:06:23+0200 Thu
;; Version: 0.5
;; Last-Updated: 2008-05-22T23:19:55+0200 Thu
;; URL: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/buffer-bg.el
;; Keywords:
;; Compatibility:
;;
;; Features that might be required by this library:
;;
;; None
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;;; Commentary:
;;
;; There is currently no way to change background colors of Emacs
;; windows. This library implements a workaround using overlays.
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;;; Change log:
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;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
;; modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
;; published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or
;; (at your option) any later version.
;;
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
;; General Public License for more details.
;;
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
;; the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth
;; Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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;;; Code:
(defvar buffer-bg-overlay nil)
(put 'buffer-bg-overlay 'permanent-local t)
;;;###autoload
(defun buffer-bg-set-color (color buffer)
"Add an overlay with background color COLOR to buffer BUFFER.
If COLOR is nil remove previously added overlay."
(interactive
(let* ((prompt (if buffer-bg-overlay
"Background color (empty string to remove): "
"Background color: "))
(color (read-color prompt nil t)))
(when (= 0 (length color))
(setq color nil))
(list color (current-buffer))
))
(if (not color)
(when buffer-bg-overlay
(delete-overlay buffer-bg-overlay)
(setq buffer-bg-overlay nil))
(save-restriction
(widen)
(setq buffer-bg-overlay
(make-overlay (point-min) (point-max) nil nil t))
;; Fix-me: Let the overlay have priority 0 which is the
;; lowest. Change this to below char properties if this is ever
;; allowed in Emacs.
(overlay-put buffer-bg-overlay 'priority 0)
(let* ((bg-face (list :background color))
(bg-after (propertize (make-string 10 ?\n)
'face bg-face
'intangible t)))
(overlay-put buffer-bg-overlay 'face bg-face)
;; This is just confusing, don't use it:
;;(overlay-put buffer-bg-overlay 'after-string bg-after)
)
)))
(provide 'buffer-bg)
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;;; buffer-bg.el ends here