Re: Easier customization of TODO keyword colors

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Ryan C. Thompson" <rct@thompsonclan.org>
Cc: org-mode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Easier customization of TODO keyword colors
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:48:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <699315B7-F6F2-42D6-9A73-859303D7CA03@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA0A386.6030901@thompsonclan.org>

Hi Ryan, hu everyone,

this code (an extended version of it) has now been integrated into Org.
It allows you to set fonts for TODO keywords, tags, and priorities in  
this way.
And you can use the variable `org-faces-easy-properties' to make these  
colors specify the background rather tan the foreground color -  
something I like for my TODO keywords.

Thanks Ryan!  Next stop will be using your level indentation cycling  
function.
Just make sure the FSF papers get through.... :-)

- Carsten

On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Ryan C. Thompson wrote:

> Here is some code I came up with some code to make it easier to  
> customize the colors of various TODO keywords. As long as you just  
> want a different color and nothing else, you can customize the  
> variable org-todo-keyword-faces and use just a string color (i.e. a  
> string of the color name) as the face, and then org-get-todo-face  
> will convert the color to a face, inheriting everything else from  
> the standard org-todo face.
>
> To demonstrate, I currently have org-todo-keyword-faces set to
> (("IN PROGRESS" . "dark orange")
> ("WAITING" . "red4")
> ("CANCELED" . "saddle brown"))
>
> Here's the code, in a form you can put in your .emacs.
>
> (eval-after-load 'org-faces
>  '(progn
>     (defcustom org-todo-keyword-faces nil
>       "Faces for specific TODO keywords.
> This is a list of cons cells, with TODO keywords in the car and
> faces in the cdr.  The face can be a symbol, a color, or a
> property list of attributes, like (:foreground \"blue\" :weight
> bold :underline t)."
>       :group 'org-faces
>       :group 'org-todo
>       :type '(repeat
>               (cons
>                (string :tag "Keyword")
>                (choice color (sexp :tag "Face")))))))
>
> (eval-after-load 'org
>  '(progn
>     (defun org-get-todo-face-from-color (color)
>       "Returns a specification for a face that inherits from org-todo
>  face and has the given color as foreground. Returns nil if
>  color is nil."
>       (when color
>         `(:inherit org-warning :foreground ,color)))
>
>     (defun org-get-todo-face (kwd)
>       "Get the right face for a TODO keyword KWD.
> If KWD is a number, get the corresponding match group."
>       (if (numberp kwd) (setq kwd (match-string kwd)))
>       (or (let ((face (cdr (assoc kwd org-todo-keyword-faces))))
>             (if (stringp face)
>                 (org-get-todo-face-from-color face)
>               face))
>           (and (member kwd org-done-keywords) 'org-done)
>           'org-todo))))
>
>
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- Carsten