RE: Changing background color of an emacs window

[Corey Foote]

Hello Lennart,Thank you! I really appreciate this code that you have 
contributed.However, I do have a few questions. I'm a newbie when it comes to 
Emacs Lisp, but is your code missing the read-color function? When I invoke 
buffer-bg-set-color interactively I get a message in the mini-buffer saying, 
"Symbol's function definition is void: read-color." I'm running GNU Emacs 
22.1.50.1.Also when I call the function by saying, for example, 
(buffer-bg-set-color "blue" "test-buffer") in the scratch buffer in invoke it 
with C-x C-e, it applies the color to the scratch buffer itself and not to the 
test-buffer buffer like I had wanted.- Corey> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:36:42 
+0200> From: lennart.borgman@gmail.com> To: xahlee@gmail.com> CC: 
help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Changing background color of an emacs 
window> > 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> > 
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