Define colors for single use in minibuffer

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I couldn't find anything on this, so I'm asking it here. I can display a message in minibuffer with

(message "foo bar")

I would like to give only the message "foo bar" a red color in the minibuffer. Is that possible with Emacs?

If you use M-x customiz-group RET minibuffer RET you can customize various aspects of how things appear in the minibuffer. Not sure if it is what you want, but it would be a good place to start. I am not entirely sure if you want to do this as part of some commands that you are writing, or just a general way to customize the face of the text in the minibuffer. — elethan, Dec 15 '15 at 15:15
No, I want to keep the default colorscheme of minibuffer, but for only specific messages I want to colorize them differently from the rest. — ReneFroger, Dec 15 '15 at 19:42

Drew · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-15 15:16:24Z

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Just use a string with faces.

(message (propertize "foo bar" 'face 'highlight))

Or use a different face, which has a red foreground. Or use a face property list:

(message (propertize "foo bar" 'face '(:foreground "Red")))

answered Dec 15 '15 at 15:16

Drew

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When I tried this it showed #("foo bar" 0 7 (face highlight)) in the echo area, but this answer explained why - you can't use C-x C-e to test it out... emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2331/… – Brian Burns Dec 15 '15 at 17:36
Thanks Drew! I was already looking why it didn't worked properly, until I noticed @bburns.km message.Thanks for sharing that link! – ReneFroger Dec 15 '15 at 19:47
Use (defun foo () (interactive) (message...)) with M-x foo, to test. – Drew Dec 15 '15 at 21:16

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