Background color past the end of the buffer

Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

I'd like to highlight the region past the end of the buffer; that is:
assuming the buffer ends somewhere halfway the current frame (either due
to scrolling or due to the buffer being short), I'd like to set an
highlight between (point-max) and down to the modeline.

I assume it's not possible using markers, and thus overlays.

I don't want to display anything important right now, just change the
background color.

Any other trick I could use?

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Vaidheeswaran C]

On Friday 10 July 2015 12:06 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> I'd like to highlight the region past the end of the buffer; that is:
> assuming the buffer ends somewhere halfway the current frame (either due
> to scrolling or due to the buffer being short), I'd like to set an
> highlight between (point-max) and down to the modeline.
> 
> I assume it's not possible using markers, and thus overlays.
> 
> I don't want to display anything important right now, just change the
> background color.
> 
> Any other trick I could use?

Install these ... and then do M-x highlight-buffer-footer.

(defface buffer-footer
  '((t (:background "gold1")))
  "Face for buffer footer")

(defface buffer-text
  '((t (:background "white")))
  "Face for buffer text.")

(defun highlight-buffer-footer ()
  (interactive)
  (custom-set-variables
   '(buffer-face-mode-face (quote buffer-footer)))
  (buffer-face-mode 1)
  (overlay-put (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max)) 'face 'buffer-text))

Use of overlays (as seen above) may not be a good idea.  It would be
worth exploring if face remapping could be used (or improved upon) to
achieve the above effect.

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If you are only intereseted in catching whitespaces at the tail end of
the buffer, you can turn on the `empty' style in M-x whitespace-mode
and M-x whitespace-toggle-options.

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 10/07/15 10:24, Vaidheeswaran C wrote:
> (defun highlight-buffer-footer ()
>   (interactive)
>   (custom-set-variables
>    '(buffer-face-mode-face (quote buffer-footer)))
>   (buffer-face-mode 1)
>   (overlay-put (make-overlay (point-min) (point-max)) 'face 'buffer-text))

Huh, that's pretty nasty indeed.

> If you are only intereseted in catching whitespaces at the tail end of
> the buffer, you can turn on the `empty' style in M-x whitespace-mode
> and M-x whitespace-toggle-options.

Not quite. In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
background color of one of the two.

I just overlay the region I'm interested in, but I want to extend the
background color of the face to the end of the frame, since it creates a
visually ambiguous situation otherwise (besides not looking good).

Maybe I can just temporarily extend the buffer content instead, but I
would loose the EOF fringe indicator and need to calculate how much
lines I need to append...

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Achim Gratz]

Yuri D'Elia writes:
> Not quite. In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
> background color of one of the two.

So changing the background color of the first part should just work the
way you want, no?


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 12/07/15 21:08, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yuri D'Elia writes:
>> Not quite. In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
>> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
>> background color of one of the two.
> 
> So changing the background color of the first part should just work the
> way you want, no?

The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
might end up being under the first.

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 12/07/15 21:37, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> On 12/07/15 21:08, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Yuri D'Elia writes:
>>> Not quite. In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
>>> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
>>> background color of one of the two.
>>
>> So changing the background color of the first part should just work the
>> way you want, no?
> 
> The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
> might end up being under the first.

If you want more reasons to see why it would make "visual" sense, have a
look at this test:

https://github.com/k-talo/volatile-highlights.el/pull/9

This spawns from the idea that sometimes, instead of highlighting, it
makes more sense to "de-light" text: i/e attetuate the stuff *around*
the selection/mark/region instead.

The trouble with this, as for my request, is that you'll want the
"delighting" effect to continue beyond EOF.

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:37:27 +0200
> 
> On 12/07/15 21:08, Achim Gratz wrote:
> > Yuri D'Elia writes:
> >> Not quite. In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
> >> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
> >> background color of one of the two.
> > 
> > So changing the background color of the first part should just work the
> > way you want, no?
> 
> The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
> might end up being under the first.

Then you could change the default face's background instead, no?

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 12/07/15 21:56, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
>> might end up being under the first.
> 
> Then you could change the default face's background instead, no?

This would also work (change the default face's background, then overlay
the rest with the original color).

But this also changes too much stuff as a result (including frame's
borders).

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Achim Gratz]

Yuri D'Elia writes:
>> So changing the background color of the first part should just work the
>> way you want, no?
>
> The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
> might end up being under the first.

My point is that you can always make the buffer colored the way you want
by simply reversing the default and then coloring the first part
differently via highlighting.  It's just a suggestion to let you do what
you want in a slightly different way that doesn't need to wait for any
changes to Emacs.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 12/07/15 22:03, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Yuri D'Elia writes:
>>> So changing the background color of the first part should just work the
>>> way you want, no?
>>
>> The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
>> might end up being under the first.
> 
> My point is that you can always make the buffer colored the way you want
> by simply reversing the default and then coloring the first part
> differently via highlighting.  It's just a suggestion to let you do what
> you want in a slightly different way that doesn't need to wait for any
> changes to Emacs.

See my reply to Eli: if you mean just by changing the 'default face, it
breaks in too many other places, including all inheriting fonts.

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Vaidheeswaran C]

On Monday 13 July 2015 12:24 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
> background color of one of the two.
> 
> I just overlay the region I'm interested in, but I want to extend the
> background color of the face to the end of the frame, since it creates a
> visually ambiguous situation otherwise (besides not looking good).
> 
> Maybe I can just temporarily extend the buffer content instead, but I
> would loose the EOF fringe indicator and need to calculate how much
> lines I need to append...


A picture is worth a thousand words.  Why not share a picture.

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:02:14 +0200
> 
> On 12/07/15 21:56, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> The part that needs highliting is not related to above/below, and it
> >> might end up being under the first.
> > 
> > Then you could change the default face's background instead, no?
> 
> This would also work (change the default face's background, then overlay
> the rest with the original color).
> 
> But this also changes too much stuff as a result (including frame's
> borders).

What do you mean by "frame's borders"?

In any case, if you change the default face by remapping, I don't
think it affects any other faces.  Did you try that?

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Vaidheeswaran C]

One thing that I noticed while cooking the recipe I posted.

1. emacs -q
2. C-x b *scratch*
3. M-x whitespace-mode
4. C-p

Whatever at 3 and 4 is a behaviour that surprises me. WDYT?

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:04:53 +0530
> 
> 1. emacs -q
> 2. C-x b *scratch*
> 3. M-x whitespace-mode
> 4. C-p
> 
> Whatever at 3 and 4 is a behaviour that surprises me. WDYT?

It's a feature, see the functions whitespace-empty-at-eob-regexp and
whitespace-post-command-hook.

Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 13/07/15 04:08, Vaidheeswaran C wrote:
> On Monday 13 July 2015 12:24 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
>> In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
>> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
>> background color of one of the two.
>>
>> I just overlay the region I'm interested in, but I want to extend the
>> background color of the face to the end of the frame, since it creates a
>> visually ambiguous situation otherwise (besides not looking good).
>>
>> Maybe I can just temporarily extend the buffer content instead, but I
>> would loose the EOF fringe indicator and need to calculate how much
>> lines I need to append...
> 
> 
> A picture is worth a thousand words.  Why not share a picture.

Forgot about this, but there was one test I needed it for:

https://github.com/k-talo/volatile-highlights.el/pull/9

for a true inverse highlight you'd need to fill the background correctly.