From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42307: bug#42347: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:34:13 +0300 Message-ID: <837dv6m4xm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k0z6n7w6.fsf@gnu.org> <83eepem9im.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6111"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 42307@debbugs.gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 18:35:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNtg-0001Ux-QP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:35:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39850 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNtf-0005jz-Ry for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNtW-0005h5-GB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:39879) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNtW-0005Vu-65 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNtW-00037F-39 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:35:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42307 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 42307-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42307.159474446611926 (code B ref 42307); Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42307) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jul 2020 16:34:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51425 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNsw-00036I-HY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55480) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNst-000365-BN for 42307@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:34:25 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34504) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNsm-0005SB-RH; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1290 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jvNsm-0005yg-7e; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 12:34:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:182997 Archived-At: > 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" > > > 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.