Re: "Adobe Brackets like" editing in emacs

[David Engster]

Johan Bockgård writes:
> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> - You cannot set a different background color for a complete window. You
>>   can only do that with an overlay, but that will only cover the parts
>>   with text.
>
> You can do it (in Emacs 24) by remapping the default face.
>
>     (setq-local face-remapping-alist '((default . highlight)))
>     (redraw-display)

I did not know that (obviously). Thanks!

-David