RE: How to highlight the current buffer's mode line ?

[Drew Adams]

> > > >> > Is it possible to change only the buffer name face only ?
> > > >> 
> > > >> Not easily.
> > > >
> > > > M-x customize-face RET mode-line-buffer-id
> > > 
> > > Except for the detail that it should have different colors in 
> > > active and inactive windows.
> > 
> > Why? Are you making up that condition?
> > The OP said nothing about that AFAIK.
> 
> Yes, he did.

Apologies to all; I misunderstood. I had deleted the original post, and then
came into the thread late. I didn't understand that what was requested was to
distinguish the current buffer (or perhaps the selected window?). No, there is
no immediate way to do that.

As pointed out, on a graphic terminal the selected _window_ has its (entire)
mode line highlighted. But there is no trivial way (a) to highlight the mode
line of all windows that show the current buffer or (b) to highlight only the
buffer name portion of those mode lines. And with a text terminal, the mode line
is pretty rudimentary.