Custom face for in-buffer message

[haji-ali]

I noticed that there is no way to change the face (especially the background) of the in-buffer message. Having it the same face as the mini-prompt makes it get lost in my text most of the time (most faces already use mini-prompt colors to highlight keywords).

I tried changing the face in ctrlf--message but the background get overridden by ctrlf-highlight-active I think.
Is there an easy way to implement this?

[raxod502]

Hmm. By in-buffer message, you mean the match count, shown in blue here?

I see what you mean, it looks like both the display of that text and the display of minibuffer messages are controlled by the minibuffer-prompt face. It would make sense to add new faces for this, e.g.

• ctrlf-message-face (inherits from minibuffer-prompt by default) -- factored out in case we later add other places to display messages than the two we have at present
• ctrlf-minibuffer-message-face (inherits from ctrlf-message-face by default) -- used by ctrlf--message always
• ctrlf-in-buffer-message-face (inherits from ctrlf-message-face by default) -- used by ctrlf--message when ctrlf--message-in-buffer-p is non-nil

But regarding your issue with the background specifically, you hypothesized that it was being interfered with by ctrlf-highlight-active, but you probably want to be looking at ctrlf-highlight-line instead.

[cburroughs]

Hmm. By in-buffer message, you mean the match count, shown in blue here?

I'd specifically like to control the face of the match count (`[10/41]' in the screenshot above).

[raxod502]

You can now do this by customizing ctrlf-in-buffer-message-face.