From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: esq@lawlist.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Placing eol glyph (buffer-display-table) before an overlay after-string.
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:32:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831sohjcue.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8VeL=na+VApX8aLrDF_EVWz4qOtoAXO2p8Av_Hh0ZJj2w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yuri Khan on Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:18:35 +0700)
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:18:35 +0700
> Cc: Keith David Bershatsky <esq@lawlist.com>,
> Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> > whitespace-mode doesn't use overlay strings, and it doesn't try to
> > replace the visual representation of the newline.
>
> It sets up a display table with entries for tab, newline, and space.
> And hl-line uses an overlay. hl-line’s overlay doesn’t use the
> after-string property, though, which must be why they work together.
hl-line uses overlays only for setting the face of the displayed text,
not for displaying extra stuff via after-string.
The problem, AFAIU, is to display the after-string _after_ the glyph
which represents the newline. Which currently cannot be done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-12 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-12 6:14 Placing eol glyph (buffer-display-table) before an overlay after-string Keith David Bershatsky
2017-08-12 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-12 9:26 ` Yuri Khan
2017-08-12 9:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-12 10:18 ` Yuri Khan
2017-08-12 10:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2017-08-12 19:03 Keith David Bershatsky
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