From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vaidheeswaran C Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Background color past the end of the buffer Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:38:34 +0530 Message-ID: References: <559F8153.6020805@gmail.com> Reply-To: vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436753330 10028 80.91.229.3 (13 Jul 2015 02:08:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 02:08:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 13 04:08:42 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZETAf-0003VC-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:08:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZETAe-0008Tk-7d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37605) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZETAb-0008So-Jx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZETAY-0004uv-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:08:37 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51771) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZETAY-0004tk-6w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:08:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZETAW-0003RU-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 106.206.156.27 ([106.206.156.27]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju by 106.206.156.27 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 04:08:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 106.206.156.27 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187843 Archived-At: 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.