Re: Inserting background colour at column

[Heime]

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On Saturday, December 3rd, 2022 at 3:46 AM, Eduardo Ochs 
<eduardoochs@gmail.com> wrote:


> On Sat, 3 Dec 2022 at 00:37, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > The following did not colourise the letter "T".
> > 
> > (insert (propertize "T" 'face '(:foreground "green" :background "blue")))
> 
> 
> This
> 
> (insert (propertize "T" 'face '(:foreground "green" :background "blue")))
> 
> works in fundamental mode for me. Did you try it in fundamental mode?

I have also tried this one

  (insert (format
           (propertize "%s"
              'face '(:foreground "green" :background "blue"))) "T")
 
> Jean Louis was discussing something similar to that here on the list a
> few weeks ago, and I sent this detailed answer to him:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2022-11/msg00368.html
> 
> Look at the last lines of my message...
> 
> In emacs-lisp-mode the "Hello" had this among its text properties,
> 
> (face font-lock-comment-face)
> 
> and this took precedence over the face from the category.
> 
> Does that help?
> Cheers,
> Eduardo Ochs
> http://angg.twu.net/eepitch.html