Re: Adding colour when font-lock in disabled

[Heime]

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On Saturday, December 10th, 2022 at 8:50 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:31:30 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > Have tried (enriched-mode). I then select some text and do "Edit - Text 
> > > > Properties - Background Colour - Other". But nothing happens.
> > > 
> > > Look closer: when you do this, Emacs prompts you for the color in the
> > > minibuffer. So "nothing happens" is not really accurate.
> > 
> > I missed that. It does as you say. But what is the exact procedure to 
> > change the colour of some text.
> 
> 
> You type the name of a color, such as "green" (without the quotes),
> and press RET.
> 
> > The colour in not taking effect on the text.
> 
> 
> It does here.

I must be doing something in my init file that changes behaviour.