idle-hightlight-mode should be able to change only the background color

[semente]

When i-h-m highlights it changes also the foreground color even when the face is configured to change only the background.

[nonsequitur]

Have you checked M-x customize-face idle-highlight?
Are you sure only the "Background" attribute is enabled?

[semente]

Yep! Only Background is enabled in this face. (no inherit, no foreground configured there)

[nonsequitur]

Please do the following:

1. Move the point over a word so that it gets highlighted.
2. Run M-x describe-char
3. Post the content of the resulting help buffer in a Pastie or a Gist. (To keep the formatting intact.)

[semente]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:28 AM, nonsequitur
[email protected]
wrote:

Please do the following:

1. Move the point over a word so that it gets highlighted.
2. Run M-x describe-char
3. Post the content of the resulting help buffer in a Pastie or a Gist. (To keep the formatting intact.)

https://gist.github.com/1167973

Also attached a screenshot. (The cursor is in "test", look the
foreground face of "another").

Guilherme Gondim (semente)

[semente]

I hope you've received the screenshot in your e-mail. :-)

[groks]

Same problem. Here's the output of describe-char and describe-font idle-highlight:

             position: 3297 of 3835 (86%), column: 2
            character: e (displayed as e) (codepoint 101, #o145, #x65)
    preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point in charset: 0x65
               syntax: w    which means: word
             category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET HEX-CODEPOINT" or "C-x 8 RET NAME"
          buffer code: #x65
            file code: #x65 (encoded by coding system undecided-unix)
              display: no font available

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: LATIN SMALL LETTER E
  general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
  decomposition: (101) ('e')

There is an overlay here:
 From 3295 to 3334
  face                 hl-line
  window               nil


There are text properties here:
  face                 idle-highlight
  fontified            t

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Face: idle-highlight (sample) (customize this face)

Documentation:
Face used to highlight other occurrences of the word at point.

Defined in `idle-highlight-mode.el'.

        Family: unspecified
       Foundry: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: unspecified
        Weight: unspecified
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: gray15
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: nil

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hl-line does the correct thing: it sets the background only (as the face specifies) maintaining the original text's foreground color. idle-highlight always forces the default-face foreground.