From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75081 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: colourising newlines Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:40:04 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87fwtyu34b.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87vd2vlxq8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ei9ivje3.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292449824 746 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 21:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:50:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23437@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Dec 15 22:50:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSzEo-0002Vi-Iq for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:50:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSzEh-0005mt-6y; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:50:11 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PSzEf-0005me-Uh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:50:09 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSzEb-0005Lp-Q0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:50:09 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PSzEb-0000no-2P for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:50:05 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSzEb-0002QS-1g for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:50:05 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:50:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:50:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+G33KiVNHfxiaFdKaQCk09I5aKE= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75081 Archived-At: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:30:00 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: LMI> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> Does it? Maybe you can font-lock it to take N spaces but actually be >> zero. LMI> I don't think that's possible with Emacs' display engine, but I'd love LMI> to be wrong on that point. Who would know, emacs-devel? >> I don't know, honestly, but dammit I know what looks good and ragged >> backgrounds are not it :) LMI> No, it looks quite awkward at present. Perhaps colourising the newline LMI> (i.e., extending the colour block up to the right frame end) is the best LMI> of two not very good options. I'll go with whatever you think is best. On my system I have a 2000+ pixels wide monitor so that's a *lot* of extension, but it's better than ragged backgrounds. Ted