Re: Colouring a cell within a table

[uzibalqa]

------- Original Message -------
On Monday, September 19th, 2022 at 7:42 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:


> * uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me [2022-09-18 17:34]:
> 
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Sunday, September 18th, 2022 at 7:54 AM, Jean Louis bugs@gnu.support 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I can think of using enriched mode for that, as if you want to remember 
> > > those cookies across sessions, that is one way.
> > > 
> > > Other way of to use HTML tables. I just don't know if Emacs package that 
> > > visually edits HTML.
> > > 
> > > Then I can think of local variables that could keep information how to 
> > > highlight some pieces of text, during work. That will not make 
> > > representation highlighted.
> > > 
> > > Maybe SES spreadsheet supports take colors.
> > > 
> > > On September 17, 2022 12:35:19 PM UTC, uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Am looking for information to see how I can colour a cell within a
> > > > table. Ideally I would like
> > > > to have a keybinding so that when I an in a cell its background in
> > > > changed to a different colour.
> > 
> > I did not realise it was not so straightforward. As you rightly pointed out,
> > emacs has to keep track of the specific table and what colouring options 
> > were
> > applied by the user.
> > 
> > Perhaps we can think into some more depth about this, because such 
> > functionality
> > could have fantastic capability.
> 
> 
> Find attached enriched mode text file, and open it with Emacs, you should see 
> colors in the table.
 
The result is as I would like.  But how did you add the colours.  After 
disabling enriched-mode, I did
not see the text defining the colour.  Have also changed the major mode to 
latex-mode and org-mode,
and the colours are not displayed even though I am still in enriched-mode.