From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Clément Pit--Claudel" <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
Cc: 27103-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27103: Should show-trailing-whitespace highlight specified spaces?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 05:30:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83poesfl81.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33c5270e-1fcc-8db3-36ec-6fa697a609b3@live.com> (message from Clément Pit--Claudel on Sun, 28 May 2017 16:18:02 -0400)
> Cc: 27103@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 16:18:02 -0400
>
> >> (insert (propertize "AA" 'line-prefix (propertize "_" 'display '(left-fringe right-arrow))))
> >
> > That's not what I meant, but if you are happy, it's fine with me.
>
> I didn't realize that this was possible. It fits my use case very nicely :) In the (defun example, I can just put the line-prefix property on the defun, and everything works perfectly.
>
> I wonder if we should mention this in the manual. Maybe in the "display specs" section, where (fringe …) is described, we could add this:
>
> `left-fringe' and `right-fringe' are replacing specs: the span of text that they apply to is made invisible. To add a fringe to a line without hiding any of its contents, put the fringe property on the before-string of an overlay or on the line-prefix of your text.
That's the kind of "howto" stuff that doesn't really belong to a
manual.
> >> Anything bad with this?
> >
> > It's just a display property. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
>
> Thanks!
OK, closing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-29 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-27 16:47 bug#27103: Should show-trailing-whitespace highlight specified spaces? Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-27 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-27 19:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-27 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-27 19:52 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-28 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-28 16:43 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-28 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-28 17:53 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-28 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-28 19:43 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-28 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-05-28 20:18 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-29 2:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-05-29 2:33 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2017-05-29 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
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