bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Jambunathan K]

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Eww is from Emacs  trunk.

See the attached screenshot.  

If you take keen look, you will see that as I type, the grey rectangular
area "shifts" to the right.

IMHO, Aesthetics of text areas needs to be improved.


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In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
 of 2013-07-07 on debian-6.05
Bzr revision: 113313 jan.h.d@swipnet.se-20130707084109-gf7csgu4tkxzjn23
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10707000
Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_IN
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Eww is from Emacs  trunk.
>
> See the attached screenshot.  
>
> If you take keen look, you will see that as I type, the grey rectangular
> area "shifts" to the right.

Do you have a test URL that demonstrates this bug?  It's probably
something to do with front/rear-stickyness of the text properties
used...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Jambunathan K]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eww is from Emacs  trunk.
>>
>> See the attached screenshot.  
>>
>> If you take keen look, you will see that as I type, the grey rectangular
>> area "shifts" to the right.
>
> Do you have a test URL that demonstrates this bug?  It's probably
> something to do with front/rear-stickyness of the text properties
> used...

Any Emacswiki page will do.  Try this link for example.

        http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=edit;id=EmacsNewbie

Textareas reminds me of my school days. Should I strictly type
between the "rules" :-)

I would rather prefer a border around the text area.  What if Text area
overflows horizontally or vertically.  Is there any support for
scrolling in that case :-)

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Any Emacswiki page will do.  Try this link for example.
>
>         http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=edit;id=EmacsNewbie

This should now work slightly better...

> Textareas reminds me of my school days. Should I strictly type
> between the "rules" :-)
>
> I would rather prefer a border around the text area.

Yes, but I'm not quite sure how to achieve that.  Currently it just uses

(defface eww-form-text
  '((t (:background "#505050"
		    :foreground "white"
		    :box (:line-width 1))))

which works perfectly for single-line inputs.

The vertical lines are elided when two characters with the same box face
are adjacent, but the horizontal lines are not.

Is this a bug in the face code, perhaps?

> What if Text area overflows horizontally or vertically.  Is there any
> support for scrolling in that case :-)

Nope.  But it'll extend if you type at the last character on the last
line.  :-)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Jambunathan K]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Any Emacswiki page will do.  Try this link for example.
>>
>>         http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/?action=edit;id=EmacsNewbie
>
> This should now work slightly better...

Better, but still....

1. Place the cursor on the first line and type some letter - e -
   infinitely.  

   You will see that there is a single `e' that overshoots the right
   border of the text area.

   I am in Emacs right.  I would have expected that stuff wraps over and
   I move on to the next line.

2. Now C-k the first line and C-y to the first line and second line.

The attached screenshot is what results after 1 and 2.  Not pretty I
should say.


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bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Jambunathan K]

One more thing: Enable undo when a text box is shown.

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

>    I am in Emacs right.  I would have expected that stuff wraps over and
>    I move on to the next line.

Sure.  If somebody wants to implement that, go for it.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/

bug#14813: 24.3.50; eww (Text areas): Improve aesthetics

[Jambunathan K]

OP here.  Closed.