From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
Cc: 42307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42307: bug#42347: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:34:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837dv6m4xm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2007141716040394.1144@sdf.lonestar.org> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:45:01 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> > and \n is the newline, so it isn't on the same line.
> >
>
> It is, but it's the last character of the line. With the current default
> behavior it is displayed, there is one more blank character after each
> line, just type C-x = on that character.
My point is that \n cannot be "leading space" of a line. It is the
end of the previous line.
> > And finally, what about stretches of whitespace generated by the 'space'
> > display properties?
>
> I don't know, and I'm not sure I fully understand the question.
The point is that the result of displaying these properties is exactly
the same as tabs and spaces. So excluding them would surprise users.
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 17:19 bug#42347: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 7:38 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 15:45 ` bug#42307: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-07-14 17:01 ` bug#42307: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 17:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-14 17:20 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 4:23 ` bug#42347: " Drew Adams
2020-07-14 7:49 ` Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-07-14 14:48 ` Drew Adams
2020-07-14 15:53 ` bug#42307: " Gregory Heytings via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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