[ESS] Font

[Stephen Eglen]

> > Does anyone know which the font in the inferior-ess buffer displays
> > prompts such as:
> >
> > "Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: " when exiting ess
> >
> > and
> >
> > "Selection: " when using options(error=recover)
> >
> > I'd like to change it.  For example, putting the following line in
> > ~/.emacs will change the color of function names to yellow:
> > (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-function-name-face "yellow").  I would
> > like to do something similar for the font referenced above but I
> > haven't figured out what it's called.
> >
> 
> Place you point at the keyword and M-: (face-at-point), this will show
> the face at the cursor.
> You can also customize all your fonts interactively from
> options>customize emacs>faces matching regexp


In addition to what Vitalie said, you can also do 'C-u C-x =' to get a
detailed description of what is at point.  For 'Selection', I see 
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        character: S (83, #o123, #x53)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x53
           syntax: w 	which means: word
         category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
      buffer code: #x53
        file code: #x53 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
    nil:-apple-Monaco-medium-normal-normal-*-18-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x36)

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
  general-category: Lu (Letter, Uppercase)

There is an overlay here:
 From 919 to 930
  font-lock-face       comint-highlight-prompt

There are text properties here:
  fontified            t
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and then M-x describe-face RET comint-highlight-prompt RET shows you the
details of the face, which you can then customize.


Stephen