Re: Red background color when editing a file as root (using TRAMP)

[Andreas Politz]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Nordlöw wrote:
> > How do I buffer-locally set the background color?
>
> You can't: background color is a frame parameter, so it can be set
> local to each frame but not each buffer.

You can fake it with an overlay. But this works only on the non-empty
parts of a buffer.

(let ((ov (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max) (current-buffer) nil t)))
  (overlay-put ov 'face '(:background "red")))

-ap