Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On 10 apr. 2013, at 11:54, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:32:44AM +0530, Jambunathan K wrote: >>> >>> See "Side note" towards the end of this message >>> >>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14157#8 >>> >> >> This request is common enough; every time it comes up overlays are >> proposed as a solution. It would be good if this is available even as a >> library outside of Org. > > Yes, overlays are better. However, maybe I am just no getting it, but > what is even the purpose of facemenu? AFAICS, the faces are > non-permanent, so when I save the file and reopen it, all the faces > are gone. I really cannot see a useful application for this.
Look up `enriched-mode' or just visit enriched.doc in `data-directory' (/etc). facemenu.el is internally used by `enriched-mode'. Let the color markup - encoding and decoding - be persisted by enriched mode. > > - Carsten