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Jest output colour codes not being recognized in compilation buffer

I have some node (typescript) code which is slightly broken and produces an error when I run it (not my problem here). When I run it in M-x shell mode, I get: $ jest FAIL src/db/DbLookups.test.ts ● ...
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color org-agenda entries by level

My org agenda (I use it as a todo-list without dates with the alltodo type, generating a list of all todo entries for each file) has many entries with many subheadings (which can again have multiple ...
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Disable 24-bit color mode in a terminal

I have set up some custom colors for various faces in Emacs. They mostly look like this: (custom-set-faces ; ... '(font-lock-constant-face ((((type tty)) (:foreground "bright magenta"))...
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transient mark mode highlighting not visible inside preview latex

I am using preview latex in auctex. When you are inside an equation there is a blue background around the latex you are previewing, which means I cannot see the highlighing from transient mark mode. ...
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Printed in named buffer with text matching pattern getting coloured

I have the following function that prints some text in the *Messages* buffer. I want to change this so the text gets printed to a named buffer instead. (defconst tika-outlshow-details " Show-...
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How to add syntactic elements to modes with colourizing and correct tabulation

I am using literate programming in org mode. It adds a new syntactic construction to the language: <<macro name>>. Unfortunately, it breaks all the colouring and tabulation after it. For ...
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How to enable 24-bit color emacs on terminal when opening it from a remote machine?

Both of my computers, says A and B, have a terminal that supports 24-bit color. Opening emacs on both terminals also show the 24-bit colors, e.g. executing M-x list-colors-display will list 556 ...
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Is there a way to export a selected color scheme into css for org-mode?

I know that you can set the org-html-htmlize-output-type variable to 'css in order to make org-mode use a set of CSS classes for coloring output. However, all of the colors need to be defined by the ...
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How to stop screen from changing how emacs handles colors

In .screenrc, I have this line: term xterm-256color If I do not use that, or if I try something different (like xterm-color or screen-256color), then emacs has absolutely no color. Here is a font-lock ...
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Make Emacs not change mouse pointer color and theme

I found the this answer to the question of how to change ones mouse pointer color for when the mouse pointer is hovering over Emacs: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/3185/10090 However, this really ...
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Colouring different parts of a comment

I want to change the colour of substrings inside comments in a buffer. So that text enclosed by braces are coloured differently. For the following bash comment, I want the text enclosed bf {} to be ...
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How can I add custom keywords into Builtin Exceptions in python-mode to color them?

In python-mode, Exception keyword has font-lock-type-face for coloring. Example output of the coloring: If possible, I want to add custom keywords into Builtin Exceptions such as QuietExit, Terminate ...
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Org mode column view: color gradient for numeric column

I have an Org user property, score, which takes values from 0 to 100. When viewing this property in column view, how can I format the cell backgrounds using a color gradient? This does something ...
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Changing the colours of menu-bar pop-ups (not of the menu-bar itself)

[Crossposting from gnu.emacs.help after getting no response there.] With Emacs 27.1, in the terminal the standard colour scheme, the pop-ups of the menu I get via F10 have a blue background and with ...
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How to set color of all DONE type TODO's

If I eg define the following in an .org file: #+TODO: TODO(t) ACTIVE(v) NEXT(x) WAITING(w) PROCESS(p) CONSIDER(c) USE(u) GOOD(g) ISSUE(i) CURRENT(4) ONHOLD(h) LATER(l) SOMEDAY(8) | DONE(d) ABANDONED(...
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Customizing colors – Invalid Face

I am trying to just adjust a few colors, without creating a whole theme. My lisp startup file contains: (load-theme 'tsdh-dark t nil) ... (set-face-foreground 'custom-variable-tag "White") ...
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font-lock-mode and printing in colour

After making a new buffer, font-lock-mode could either be enabled on disabled. For instance, if I use (text-mode) or (org-mode) will automatically enable font-lock-mode. However, for (fundamental-...
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Coloured indicators defined by a time interval

Would it be possible to have a coloured indicator that light at each second, then starts all over again? I would have a 4 column row in a buffer. After a predefined time interval the background ...
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Recommended way to modify built-in (blink-cursor-timer-)function behavior

I have re-defined blink-cursor-timer-function for the cursor to change colour. How can I modify this without re-defining the build-in function? (defvar ramona-indicator-colour (list "#FFA500&...
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Using colour when inserting text in a buffer

I would like print some text in either Green Blue Yellow Amber or Red? How can I do it? Have made the following function but calling (mcolour "text" "red" "Mybuffer") ...
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Customize face foreground color value using the color of another face

I am making some small customizations to my org-agenda view. For the face called "Org Agenda Done", I am adding a strikethrough and changing the color. The color I want to use is already ...
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Adjust unreadable blue color for rustic mode

When using clippy with rustic mode, I'm unable to read any of the blue messages on my screen. I would like to change the color so I can read these messages. Existing answers tell me to adjust the ...
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Change colour of cursor indicator in ruler-mode

I am using ruler-mode and would like to change the background and foreground colour of the cursor indicator. Had a go with ruler-mode-current-column but emacs is complaining that ruler-mode-current-...
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Background colouring of lines composed of repetitions of the comment character

The following code changes the background colour of lines that are composed of the repetition of the comment character for lisp-interaction-mode. (defface special-comment '((t (:background "...
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`M-x shell` not displaying colors

OS: Mac OS 12.5.1 Emacs: GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0, NS appkit-1671.60 Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G95)) of 2022-05-11 (i.e. the 28.1-4 binary from https://emacsformacosx.com/) ...
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How to change background color of a specific file?

Let's say I want my file notes.org to have a specific background color. How to do that? But I want other files to adhere to the standard theme color for background. So, I want yellow background for ...
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How to change the background color when running in the GNOME Terminal?

I have added (set-background-color "blue") to my ~/.emacs (just for test purposes). When I run Emacs in windowed mode this makes the background color blue (as expected), but when I run Emacs ...
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Emacs palette.el paste hex color value

Can someone tell me how to copy/paste the hex color value showed by palette (M-x palette) into the current buffer. When I hit Enter key it displays another frame From this I'd liked to copy then ...
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Printing coloured text in emacs mini-buffer and *Messages* buffer

I want to print coloured text in the minibuffer and in the Messages. Can this be done and how?
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How to change the color, or remove, the vertical line next to the scroll bar?

When I try some themes like the doom-nord-light theme, I get some weird line on the side of the scroll bar (here in yellow, but sometimes it is black): How can I could remove them or change their ...
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How can I change color of comments if they are next to a table in org-mode?

In org-mode comments next to a table is same color as the table itself. Would it be possible to change the comments' color if they are next to a table? For | Timestamp | Money | |--------------+----...
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How to define a face that blends between two existing faces colors?

When defining a new face, how to blend/interpolate between two existing faces colors? For example - mix the colors foreground of default and the background of the error face with a factor 0.0 being ...
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company-mode popups and magit current region are dark while current theme is light

I've been successfully using lsp-mode and magit for a while with a light theme (leuven). Today I was messing with something seemingly unrelated (company-mode and auto-complete settings in my ~/.emacs ...
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Conditional Formatting foreground and background when highlighting selected text

This is a follow-up question to: Interchange Foreground and Background Colors when highlighting selected text. How can I do some conditional formatting? For example I do not want inverse-video if the ...
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Interchange Foreground and Background Colors when highlighting selected text

I use something like this to control the background color of my selected text: (region ((t (:background ,green)) (t :inverse-video t))) However some foreground colors don't go well with ...
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Would it be possible apply different font/background color for `<code_sample>` in org mode?

In markdownmode, or while asking questions in stackoverflow, when we do, `<code>` or ```<code>``` The background become changes into gray. Would it be possible to apply same in orgmode, ...
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How to change visual appearance of ANSI colors for *shell* buffers running on "GUI Emacs"?

OS: Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux Emacs: GNU Emacs 28.0.50, with a solarized theme from here Terminal emulator: terminator 1.91, with a solarized (dark) ...
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How to disable `flycheck` while merging Git conflicts

I am using following solution for merge Git conflicts in Emacs, which is based on smerge. During merging smerge-mode creates <<<<<<< HEAD , ||||||||| parent lines for conflict ...
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frame-background-mode leads `Args out of range: #<buffer doo.py>, 0, 1` error

I am using following answer to search and replace a word in the entire buffer: (defun query-replace-region-or-from-top () "If marked, query-replace for the region, else for the whole buffer (...
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Why does ^g reset my cursor color?

I'm using Emacs 27.2 on macOS 10.13.16 from the railwaycat build. I set my cursor color to a red color using (set-cursor-color "red") As soon as I type controlg, the cursor color reverts to ...
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Changing font color with Key bindings?

I've been using Emacs org-mode to primarily take lecture notes for university, and I find that it is remarkably useful and I can usually type everything up fairly quickly. Recently, I've been wanting ...
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How do I change the highlighted background color inside the parenthesis?

I am using pretty much the default theme color however, I do want to change the highlighted background color inside the parenthesis. Is there any specific Face Attributes setting for this specific ...
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How do I change the color of the menu bar in terminal Emacs?

I am using Emacs in a terminal. This is what the menu bar looks like: The menu bar has a white foreground and a black background. I want a green background with a pink foreground instead. Is there a ...
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Getting consistent colors for terminal and GUI emacs

I've noticed that color definitions on the terminal and the GUI are not consistent. For example on the GUI, there is a color DarkOrchid2 defined, however this is not there for the terminal. Instead, ...
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Do not colour "word" colours in rainbow-mode

In rainbow-mode, is it possible to toggle colouring only "words" or only "hexadicimals"? I don't see a variable I could set.
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Unable to load color "#FFFFFF" (mouse-face)

Using Emacs 27.1 (mac port, BigSur), I get a strange behavior when I set the mouse face color using an hexadecimal description. Running emacs -Q -l show-bug.el, with show-bug.el being: (font-lock-mode ...
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Marking up colored text in Org

I want to generate an Excel spreadsheet programmatically from an Org document. Any tips on how to markup colored text? I understand that Org does not natively support color markup, wondering if there'...
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Emacs python-mode language formatting does not reapply on buffer on newly typed text

When I open a .py file for the first time the formatting is perfect, colors match special words as expected in Python But when I type new text in the buffer, it inherits the color of the same ...
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Make mark color overlap highlight symbol at point

I use auto-highlight-symbol-mode package to auto highlight symbol on point. I found it annoying when I mark a text because the symbol highlight overlaps on my marked text, so I don't see if I marked ...
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Strange Color Issues

I've been playing around with Emacs for the first time this week, and I've been having some issues with the color scheme. This post was prompted by getting some weird when using helm. I've also ...
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