Re: Customize face according to extension

[Kevin Rodgers]

henry atting wrote:
> how can I customize the face of a file according to a certain suffix?
> Let's say the extension is *.nry, now I want to see all files with that
> extension listed in a specific colour in eshell or dired.

Check out this entry in dired-font-lock-keywords:

   ;; Files suffixed with `completion-ignored-extensions'.
   '(eval .
     ;; It is quicker to first find just an extension, then go back to the
     ;; start of that file name.  So we do this complex MATCH-ANCHORED 
form.
     (list (concat "\\(" (regexp-opt completion-ignored-extensions) 
"\\|#\\)$")
           '(".+" (dired-move-to-filename) nil (0 dired-ignored-face))))


That suggests you could define a new face and add a similar entry to
dired-font-lock-keywords that references it instead of
dired-ignored-face, for the simple regexp "\\.nry\\'".

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA