From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: narrow color bar using display properties Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:45:57 -0800 Message-ID: <9D82DC89AB9E4C6490AE37DEB74507AF@us.oracle.com> References: <87lia29xay.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <83sj49spmx.fsf@gnu.org> <9BD2D6F5-5CF4-42CE-9CB3-B22C3A81B77E@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362509180 25931 80.91.229.3 (5 Mar 2013 18:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Peter Dyballa'" , "'Eli Zaretskii'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 05 19:46:43 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 1UCwsq-00021s-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:46:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36568 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCwsU-0007xv-VQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCwsH-0007xn-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCwsG-0000gu-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:45330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCwsE-0000gP-1L; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet22.oracle.com (acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r25Ik0rs029682 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:46:01 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt357.oracle.com (acsmt357.oracle.com [141.146.40.157]) by acsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r25Ijx1E019736 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Mar 2013 18:45:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt114.oracle.com (abhmt114.oracle.com [141.146.116.66]) by acsmt357.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r25IjxmQ014952; Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:45:59 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.175.49) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:45:59 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <9BD2D6F5-5CF4-42CE-9CB3-B22C3A81B77E@Web.DE> Thread-Index: Ac4ZztGNUrnDMRadST6mZCDSaUGgzAAAhSJg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet22.oracle.com [141.146.126.238] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:89369 Archived-At: > > 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.)