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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: narrow color bar using display properties
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:49:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sj49spmx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lia29xay.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

> From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:26:45 +0800
> 
> I've got my cursor-type set to a colored bar, and looking at it today I
> thought it would be very nice if I could create a similar effect with
> code: presumably using text properties (I'm guessing the display
> property) to lay a bar of color (either background color or a
> transparent foreground color) over existing text, only a couple of
> pixels wide and aligned left, without otherwise disturbing the placement
> of the text beneath.

I don't get it: do you mean to have a color bar to the left of _every_
character in a region of text?  Why would want something like that?
Or did I misunderstand what you want?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-05 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  6:26 narrow color bar using display properties Eric Abrahamsen
2013-03-05 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-05 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-05 18:16   ` Peter Dyballa
2013-03-05 18:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-03-05 18:45     ` Drew Adams
2013-03-06  1:52       ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found] ` <mailman.21466.1362505829.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-05 18:26   ` Dan Espen
     [not found] <mailman.21422.1362464496.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-05 14:33 ` Michael Heerdegen

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