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24.3.50; Please document buffer-face-mode

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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
To: 14651 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14651: 24.3.50; Please document buffer-face-mode
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:33:07 +0530

24.3.50; Please document buffer-face-mode.  See Face Changes in
NEWS.23.  But missing in user manual.

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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Setting the background colour of a buffer or window
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:05 +0530 (40 seconds ago)


> You can do something like
>
>   emacs -Q
>   c-x 2
>   c-h N
>   c-x o
>   M-: (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist) <RET>
>   M-: (push '(default (:background "blue")) face-remapping-alist) <RET>
>
> So you have a different default background for the buffer (not the
> window).

A non-geeky version of it will be 

1. M-x customize-variable RET buffer-face-mode-face RET
2. M-x buffer-face-mode RET

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