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(Font Lock): Explain how to customize Font Lock faces.

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(Faces): Document set-face-foreground and set-face-background.
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@ -715,10 +715,11 @@ argument is positive, off if the argument is not positive. You can use
the X resource @samp{menuBarLines} to control the initial setting of
Menu Bar mode. @xref{Resources X}.
@kindex C-Mouse-3@r{, when menu bar is turned off}
Expert users often turn off the menu bar, especially on text-only
terminals, where this makes one additional line available for text. If
the menu bar is off, you can still pop up a menu of its contents with
@kbd{c-mouse-3} on a display which supports popup menus. @xref{Menu
@kbd{C-mouse-3} on a display which supports popup menus. @xref{Menu
Mouse Clicks}.
@xref{Menu Bar}, for information on how to invoke commands with the
@ -781,6 +782,15 @@ how to specify the foreground and background color.
@xref{Face Customization}. You can also use X resources to specify
attributes of particular faces (@pxref{Resources X}).
@cindex face colors, setting
@findex set-face-foreground
@findex set-face-background
Alternatively, you could change the foreground and background colors
of a specific face with @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} and @kbd{M-x
set-face-background}. These commands prompt in the minibuffer for a
face name and a color name, with completion, and then setup that face to
use the specified color.
@findex list-faces-display
To see what faces are currently defined, and what they look like, type
@kbd{M-x list-faces-display}. It's possible for a given face to look
@ -895,6 +905,22 @@ function @code{global-font-lock-mode}, like this:
(global-font-lock-mode 1)
@end example
To change the colors or the fonts used by Font Lock mode to fontify
different parts of text, you can use one of the following:
@itemize @bullet
@item
Invoke @kbd{M-x set-face-foreground} or @kbd{M-x set-face-background} to
change the colors of a particular face, such as
@code{font-lock-variable-name-face}, used by Font Lock. @xref{Faces}.
The command @kbd{M-x list-faces-display} displays all the faces
currently known to Emacs, including those used by Font Lock.
@item
Customize the faces interactively with @kbd{M-x customize-face}, as
described in @ref{Face Customization}.
@end itemize
@kindex M-g M-g
@findex font-lock-fontify-block
In Font Lock mode, when you edit the text, the highlighting updates