From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: narrow color bar using display properties Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:52:15 +0800 Message-ID: <87mwuh8fcg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87lia29xay.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83sj49spmx.fsf@gnu.org> <9BD2D6F5-5CF4-42CE-9CB3-B22C3A81B77E@Web.DE> <9D82DC89AB9E4C6490AE37DEB74507AF@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362534430 1140 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2013 01:47:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:47:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 06 02:47:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UD3S5-0002YE-3G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:47:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37665 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UD3Rj-00054g-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:47:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UD3RX-00054Q-Gc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:46:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UD3RV-00028h-31 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UD3RU-00028b-SU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UD3Ro-0002Mf-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:47:12 +0100 Original-Received: from 114.250.135.195 ([114.250.135.195]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:47:12 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 114.250.135.195 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:47:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.250.135.195 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pObNreiOh7pglV9nPbSq/iMg3t0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89375 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" 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