How to determine what face is associated with a bit of text?

[Didier Verna]

skip at pobox.com wrote:

> I'm having trouble figuring out what face is used to render a
> particular bit of text. See the attached PNG. I'm particularly
> interested in the hard-to-read green text. (This was clipped from an
> ipython comint buffer.) Given a random bit of text is there some way
> to determine the face used to render it?

  It seems to me that Stephen has just made available a package to ease
that kind of thing (Introspector or something). Have a look at recent
archives of this list.

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