From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: colorizing empty space Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:17:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87oc8la5u2.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295950779 629 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2011 10:19:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 25 11:19:35 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 1Phfzr-0007AJ-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:19:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phfzp-0006NC-I7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38066 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PhfyR-0005lt-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhfyO-00072f-VM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:50236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PhfyO-00072U-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so2367613ewy.0 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:18:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=sr37S5ctIo3s9Q38kaSa/YbuSHWe7ksPkaYWvoZd78c=; b=RluyrAGRH8K00lUB1281xgTgW2U7tBZvcYy6XZEeQXx1d2bJtJrYEDm5Lv6GDWjnrv WzIuTFNRghdj+yU75h40yk3zPHcQ3R9IQclM+9i1dqRB973VjNOi1xKpQe7TNpKexERf pBqGTv+5rRIR9PohjscFYRVJK5wuEl0pkz87k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=GeNe+KQz8z5EuBXGUPbhVkOK4wHU2cCgBpQ697Ddgz53YiYmMGedCgDp5OjrYHgE+D jumsOkDnP/eB1mIUEM6mhECJrjtEhITv2hwzTeqqOyfg/j42CXWZTICAxlZXY7rIT7LI kWXrGdOb6dMC/pD1w1lqtsOeRkq/l8AkyskRg= Original-Received: by 10.213.33.205 with SMTP id i13mr3052706ebd.32.1295950683642; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:18:03 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.213.20.148 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:17:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:134924 Archived-At: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > 2010/12/16 Ted Zlatanov : >> I wonder if there's a way to give all the lines max(paragraph lines)+1 >> width using "visual" space, so at least one "visual" space is added on >> the right (shown with x): > > On another note, I've been looking for a way to colorize the area of a > window after EOB. I have a compile mode hook that turns the window > background red on error. Using text properties, the best I can do is > change the color of the text itself. The region between the end of the > text and the bottom of the window is still the frame's default color. > If the window is in its own frame, I can just change the frame > background color, but I'd like to be able to achieve this effect for > normal windows. Adding extra newlines will work, but that distorts the > scroll bar position, M-> handling, and so on. Any ideas? There is no way to do it. A change in Emacs display code is needed.