From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 4394@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4394: 23.1; flashing when overlapping face and mouse-face properties
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:11:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fswb77z2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s23o2zy.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:06:57 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:06:57 +0200
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 4394@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> The point of the mouse face is to tell the user that they can mouse-2 on
> the region to expand the abbreviated bits. (This is done in
> `last-sexp-setup-props'.)
>
> However, when the sexp is large, the mouse face is indeed very annoying.
> Would it make sense to shorten it somehow? For instance, only display
> it over the "..." to indicate that it's the abbreviation that the mouse
> face is trying to draw attention to? Or... something else?
>
> Like... er... adding underlines or something to the dots and not using
> a mouse face at all? Or underlines and a mouse face, but just for the
> dots...
>
> Anybody got an opinion?
My opinion is that we should leave this alone.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-18 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-10 23:38 bug#4394: 23.1; flashing when overlapping face and mouse-face properties Drew Adams
2011-07-12 22:48 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-18 19:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-18 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-18 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-16 12:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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