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Re: Interactive function displaying face attributes


From: carlmarcos
Subject: Re: Interactive function displaying face attributes
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:53:32 +0200 (CEST)

Aug 9, 2022, 18:33 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 20:24:21 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
>> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>
>>
>> I am writing this function to display face attributes.  The function works 
>> interactively accepting a string from the user obtained from 
>> `completing-read'.
>>
>
> What is that string?  If it's a face, then we already have
> describe-face.
>
The string is an element in the list passed in completing-read.


>> For `char-after-point' I want to display the face attribute of the
>> character after point.
>>
>
> Did you try "M-x describe-text-properties"?
>
No, have done `describe-face'

>> Having seen that there can be more than one face at point, what can I do?
>>
> No, the face at a given buffer position can have only one value.
>
If `hl-line-mode' is enabled, would that result in multiple faces at point?




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