Re: Work-around for missing tab-line-(in)active faces?

Frank Steiner <[email protected]> writes:

> Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
> > uses `mode-line-window-selected-p' as a test.  And this has an
> > observable effect here, limited though to selected tabs (in any window).
>
> Well, that's indeed using different faces for the tabs itself. But I would
> need different faces for the parent object, i.e. the tab-line itself,
> which is holding all the tabs...

I misunderstood.

It looks like you investigated everything extensively already, and it
doesn't look like there is a solution that is not hackish, apart from
"Write a bug report and ask for it.".

A hackish solution I would try: add a function to
`tab-line-tab-face-functions' that uses face remapping to change the
appearance of the `tab-line` face.  Face remapping can contain faces
applicable only to certain windows:

  (info "(elisp) Face Remapping")

But maybe it would be better to ask for an implementation in Emacs, or
just implement it if you can.


Michael.