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: face vs. mouse-face text property Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:20:46 +0800 Message-ID: <87vco8jgz5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pqegeluf.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326957673 29751 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2012 07:21:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:21:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 08:21:09 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RnmJ3-0002cd-A2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:21:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnmJ2-0006xZ-O5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:21:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnmIt-0006wq-No for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnmIn-00034p-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:20:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52436) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnmIn-00034l-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:20:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [155.69.19.174] (port=44499 helo=furball) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnmIn-0001BF-1e; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:20:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pqegeluf.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:34:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147720 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > My question is: is this a bug, or intended behavior? If it is intended, > why, and is there a way to get the mouse highlighting nevertheless work > or to override the default behavior? In my scenario, it is important > that the mouse-face works also for strings consisting of newlines, to > indicate that it's clickable text. >From my understanding, the mouse-face highlighting only triggers when the cursor is over a text character glyph, but this should not be a fundamental limitation, and is something we could change in future releases. I suggest filing a bug report.