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 11:27:56 +0100 Organization: The Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87zmafzuqb.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164451269 5931 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2006 10:41:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:41:09 +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 11:41:05 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 1Gnuxu-0007d3-00 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:40:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gnuxt-0004jA-Af for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnusD-0008PW-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GnusA-0008Nr-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GnusA-0008NT-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.188] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gnus9-0006Yn-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [84.167.44.164] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu3) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKxQS-1Gnus30Dk3-0004i1; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:34:55 +0100 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A12B7637A; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:27:57 +0100 (CET) Original-To: berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de In-Reply-To: (M. G. Berberich's message of "Fri\, 24 Nov 2006 14\:37\:17 -0000") 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:38962 Archived-At: M G Berberich writes: > Hello, > > at the moemnt I'm using xemacs, and I have a background-image, which How does this work for lines broader than the buffer? > improves usability (in my opinion). Is there a way to get this It looks surely interesting. But normally the readability of text presented in lines is good when they aren't too long. 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. > appearance in emacs too? This reminds me a bit of `global-hl-line-mode'. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany