From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: face vs. mouse-face text property
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:14:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <73B792BB-2350-41F5-9790-C836AB2CE7FF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RpcPq-0003eF-NY@fencepost.gnu.org>
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On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>
>> I trust your experience far more than mine these days, but I have to wonder if empty rectangle might not be good enough for the suggested use case.
>
> I doubt that. The issue at hand is how to display mouse-highlighted
> newline so that it is clear to the user it's a newline that (e.g.)
> will be inserted when she clicks on it in *Completions* buffer.
> Showing an empty rectangle hardly accomplishes that effect.
I suppose that there are tricky edges, but I thought that the first-order problem was being able to tell a newline or tab apart from nothing. If the use-case is more complicated, then I'll certainly believe that `something not-normal but not-nothing' is not sufficient. I had mostly hoped to improve upon Lars' `4 chars of garbage' experience.
>
>> I assume that C-x = DTRT with those empty rectangles?
>
> You meant "C-u C-x =", I presume.
Yes, that's what I meant; thanks.
In truth, I have quite a bit of very old tty-only experience, but almost all of it predates reasonable tty+mouse setups, so I tend to forget the mouse part in this domain. I did check that mouse-selecting such a character in order to describe-char it was a bust, but I assumed (probably wrongly) that the mouse-case wasn't as interesting for the tty users as a the keyboard-motion case.
For the mouse case, I was wondering idly about a tooltip version of describe-char, but it seemed unlikely to be as useful as a special face for this purpose.
Thanks!
*Chad
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-18 21:34 face vs. mouse-face text property Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-19 7:20 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-19 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-20 20:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-21 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-22 22:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-23 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-23 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 14:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-01-23 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-01-23 18:47 ` chad
2012-01-23 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-23 21:09 ` chad
2012-01-24 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 7:04 ` chad
2012-01-24 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 11:14 ` chad [this message]
2012-01-24 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-24 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
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