From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: can we please define a face for compile.el mouseover? Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:08 -0500 Message-ID: <871v33aexz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298151151 9684 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 21:32:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 22:32:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PquPd-00050L-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:32:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PquPc-0004bm-Mp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39861 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PquPU-0004Vi-3k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PquPR-0001Lj-Mi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:11 -0500 Original-Received: from vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.144]:37632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PquPR-0001Lb-Kw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from furball ([64.134.67.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by vm-emlprdomr-03.its.yale.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1JLW83X014196 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: by furball (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A10A216081E; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:32:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:11:25 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on 130.132.50.144 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 130.132.50.144 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136242 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > I see what you mean and I partly agree. So part of the reason you > want a different face is because you mouse-highlight the whole line. > But admittedly, the regexps we use in compile.el seem to cover > potentially long chunks of text, even without extending them to cover > the whole line. Maybe we should add a new face `long-highlight', > inheriting from highlight and use it in compilation, or on the > contrary maybe we should try and reduce the size of the > mouse-highlighted text. Any example of such usage in Emacs core code?