From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: colorizing empty space
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:17:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkqqb1yo.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vzk67mi.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:50:13 +0800 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
CY> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> I wonder if there's a way to give all the lines max(paragraph lines)+1
>> width using "visual" space, so at least one "visual" space is added on
>> the right (shown with x):
>>
>> Helloxxxx\n
>> therexxxx\n
>> everyonex\n
>>
>> which can then be colorized with the proper background. I'd like this
>> to happen without actually modifying the text (so if copied it will
>> retain the original content), so I was wondering if font-lock or some
>> other Emacs wizardry could be used to create this "visual" space effect.
CY> You could make the "xxxx\n" a display string on top of the newline
CY> character.
That sounds reasonable. Thank you for the hint. We'll try it in Gnus.
Ted
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2011-01-24 18:17 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-01-24 22:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 23:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 23:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 23:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-25 0:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 1:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
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