From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33435: 27.0.50; A use case for recursive display specifications Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 02:20:07 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="226165"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 33435@debbugs.gnu.org To: Pip Cet Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 03 02:21:30 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFos6-000whi-0o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2019 02:21:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60158 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFos4-0004Ql-5U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iForf-000454-Hb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFore-0007Pu-Hw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFore-0007Po-EF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFore-00033m-8c for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:21:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: Resent-From: Stefan Kangas Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33435 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 33435-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33435.157006202611693 (code B ref 33435); Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33435) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Oct 2019 00:20:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38546 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFor3-00032X-Ki for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-pf1-f170.google.com ([209.85.210.170]:46911) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iFor2-00032J-FX for 33435@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 20:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-pf1-f170.google.com with SMTP id q5so516612pfg.13 for <33435@debbugs.gnu.org>; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:20:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=YMzoC99KAipOdd1B/qdLi2SdzxUWaKgdzilWcVjfV6k=; b=EtYFZ7JmfKMyi6NTs6isB1Uvc0RRzDL2Rdh5S7rbvU1Rhe9E6UfR/GOUXtJcJgH5C8 6xKOrnzSASvKQimwcZqfxCA8GkHD4YYSuTjUnfHQ1a3fgrtxhbysTGYPxCqGm+o9F+3l 8DCsYZgcowd3uGUa9ENNb7hiKQM3dfJjvPhAZB/fsZDbn3O9nhRniQgcveP8mKonyEYb 5vS7KK+Vvt13kUY9I4RT3CFdTskkfZFQjVFe2/rKtDRIrt1kyvOFNI3CyXriUqZmspj+ 5UD48RmC1lwhxaStPaLHdzE/Ma/rickzSXFlG3X+34BesPw2qDjVpji9txQmKFkJoYSK xqaQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAVqoU2p/GhwHUmyvSCrEWXXfHniIIQ7s7rYtErzfc828hs8sVM9 OqMqs6VT3CYxCpe1Tp61w7l8w60ClfRVI/vHmyQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyG5PHAMWZdWqYKIvvEk9ZTybMJTWfNEHdiBgXXPGca8QAcCiiyW5mg+mOS96OwEMejO4zzKI60W46voYtJSr4= X-Received: by 2002:aa7:8750:: with SMTP id g16mr7658333pfo.190.1570062018659; Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:20:18 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:168188 Archived-At: Pip Cet writes: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 7:37 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > This is a feature request: I'd like to be able to display an empty line >> > as a non-empty line with images in it. >> >> I don't think I understand this. Can you elaborate what that means? >> >> In case I did understand: did you try an overlay with after-string >> that has an image display property on it? > > First, thanks for the suggestion; sorry, it simply hadn't occurred to > me that after/before-string can do things display specifications > cannot. > > Obviously I'm still thinking of a display-propertized display > specification string as the more natural thing to do, and things are > slightly different (cursor placement, modifications, highlighting of > included text) with the after-string solution, but I'll try to get > things working that way. Thanks again. Is this feature request still relevant, or did Eli's reply solve this use case? Thanks. Best regards, Stefan Kangas