Re: Changing background color of an emacs window

[Xah]

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)

Code untested, but something like that... you'll need to mod the code
so that it changes to diff colors on each split, and perhaps also code
to change back whenever there's unsplit...

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