From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/75724 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: colourising newlines Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:24:41 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k4i0o7km.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 1295476224 9127 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2011 22:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:30:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24075@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jan 19 23:30:20 2011 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 1PfgXi-0007YK-D3 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:30:18 +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 1PfgXb-00009k-PJ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:30:11 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PfgXa-00009c-PT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:30:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PfgXW-0006Aj-S1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:30:10 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PfgXW-0003cF-5k for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:30:06 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfgXV-0007Na-DD for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:30:05 +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, 19 Jan 2011 23:30:05 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:30:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 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:GVyj0+a3NLojfqtcQNktaWErUxY= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:75724 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. >> 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. Chong Yidong had a suggestion about this on emacs-devel, I don't know if you saw it. Ted