Get font face under cursor in Emacs

Question

I've been developing my own custom color theme, and it'd be really useful if I could get a list of font-faces affecting the text under the cursor.

Something like Textmate's show current scope command.

That would save me the trouble of doing M-x customize-face and looking through available options, guessing at which one affects the current word I'm on.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

what-cursor-position with a prefix argument shows the face under point, among other information.

Keyboard shortcut is C-u C-x =

Example output (the face property is shown in the last paragraph):

             position: 5356 of 25376 (21%), column: 4             character: r (displayed as r) (codepoint 114, #o162, #x72)     preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point in charset: 0x72                syntax: w    which means: word              category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman           buffer code: #x72             file code: #x72 (encoded by coding system undecided-unix)               display: by this font (glyph code)     nil:-apple-Monaco-medium-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x55)  Character code properties: customize what to show   name: LATIN SMALL LETTER R   general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)   decomposition: (114) ('r')  There are text properties here:   face                 org-level-2   fontified            t  [back]