Re: narrow color bar using display properties

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > I don't get it: do you mean to have a color bar to the left 
>> > of _every_ character in a region of text?
>> 
>> I think Eric has a horizontal bar cursor and wants to 
>> "underline" text.
>
> Really?  In that case, I don't understand Stefan's message saying that you can't
> do that with Emacs.
>
> You can easily use a face that has attribute `underline' and/or `overline' as a
> text property or overlay.  And the line(s) can be any color.
>
> (Like Eli, I too did (do?) not understand what the request is.)

Ha, sorry to create confusion, I thought I'd articulated myself well! I
do want a color bar to the left of a series of characters, but
vertically-aligned characters, creating a multi-line vertical bar (I'm
trying to prettify Org Agenda's display of multi-day agenda items).

Initial experimentation indicates that Michael Heerdegen's stipple
suggestion might do the trick!

Thanks,
Eric