{"id":9394,"date":"2018-01-06T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2019-08-27T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:21:48","slug":"emacs-in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2018\/01\/06\/emacs-in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"emacs: in table-mode, how do I change the face used for cells?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/emacs.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2394\/in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells\">https:\/\/emacs.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2394\/in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find it very useful and necessary to know immediately, that a table got recognised by emacs as such. Emacs shows it in colours then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the default settings I find the background <em>blue1<\/em>&nbsp;(together with foreground&nbsp;<em>gray90<\/em>) sometimes \/ often &#8220;far too heavy&#8221;, let&#8217;s say: a contrast far too exhausting for my eyes. Really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/eye_candy\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/eye_candy<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what is a &#8220;less heavy&#8221; pair of foreground \/ background settings for <em>table-cell<\/em>? &#8220;For the time being&#8221; I am using plain &#8220;<em>black<\/em>&#8221; for the background through emacs customisation (&#8220;<em>table-cell<\/em>&#8221; in my &#8220;<em>custom-file<\/em>&#8220;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The StackExchange article explains you everything, you need to know, and also points you to the related customisation buffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Colors.html\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/manual\/html_node\/emacs\/Colors.html<\/a> \u2013 &#8220;Colors for Faces&#8221; \u2013 running list-colors-display is faulty for me currently (2019-08-27), so I have to find another way of listing the availables colours<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rgb.txt\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rgb.txt<\/a> resp. \u2026<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X11_color_names\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X11_color_names<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td>foreground<\/td><td>background<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>default<\/td><td><\/td><td>black<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>&#8220;light grey&#8221;<\/td><td>&#8220;dark blue&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019-08-27: too difficult<\/td><td>snow1<\/td><td>gray70<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019-08-27: works<\/td><td>black<\/td><td>white<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019-08-27: works<\/td><td>tomato<\/td><td>white<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/emacs.stackexchange.com\/questions\/2394\/in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells I find it very useful and necessary to know immediately, that a table got recognised by emacs as such. Emacs shows it in colours then. With the default settings I find the background blue1&nbsp;(together with foreground&nbsp;gray90) sometimes \/ often &#8220;far too heavy&#8221;, let&#8217;s say: a contrast far too exhausting for my eyes. Really! https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/eye_candy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[120],"tags":[1038,1333],"class_list":["post-9394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emacs","tag-eye-candy","tag-table-mode"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-2rw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions\/10717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}