From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: background-image in emacs Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:08:10 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87r6vrz9f9.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164479308 12768 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 18:28:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:28:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 25 19:28:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Go2G7-0002oQ-8O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:28:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Go2G6-0006Bc-Oa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Go2Ft-0006AY-40 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:28:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Go2Fq-00069j-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:28:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Go2Fq-00069g-TH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Go2Fq-0005FV-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:27:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.44.164] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1Go2Fp1zDw-0000fi; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:27:57 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 568AC755D2; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:08:10 +0100 (CET) Original-To: berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de In-Reply-To: (M. G. Berberich's message of "Sat\, 25 Nov 2006 14\:42\:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38983 Archived-At: M G Berberich writes: > Hello, > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Dieter Wilhelm wrote: >> M G Berberich writes: >>> >>> at the moemnt I'm using xemacs, and I have a background-image, which >> >> How does this work for lines broader than the buffer? > > I'm not sure if I understood your question: It's simply a > background-image, belonging to the frame. It does not care about > =C2=BBlogical=C2=AB lines. It's like printing on old-fashioned fanfold > computer-paper. I see, it's a pity, it could be an alternative to the fringe's indicators of long lines. > >> It looks surely interesting. But normally the readability of text >> presented in lines is good when they aren't too long. >>=20 >> The only advantage I discern is when comparing stuff by hand i. e. >> checking data presented in tabular form and your eyes have to wander >> constantly from the sheet to the screen and might end up in the >> wrong line. > > I normaly don't do this. I like it and think its usefull in editing > "formated" texts, like source-code. > Hmmm, I really had to work with it to judge the usefulness. --=20 Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany