From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pip Cet Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33435: 27.0.50; A use case for recursive display specifications Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:16:25 +0000 Message-ID: References: <835zwskge7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542726984 4481 195.159.176.226 (20 Nov 2018 15:16:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33435@debbugs.gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 16:16:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gP7lE-00014x-1v for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:16:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34277 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gP7nK-0008PJ-Kt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=B11FzixT++jGUp4xr9+R0cXNcA1Pj9jkPQ1wz+71JeI=; b=WklAsT8p6i2e7ScyzdAum+/2vP/ui1OZ+OYp1TbiLybVvvN0nWQLyrhNxyKwlFC6un K/qKj0YMHtjPdZQWXu6mKWPDPJdMH7fBuXTc9y5Ot26j7jhDAtgPgNQbJDEhzRoccxWC ZNNabdOCVNs4c91b+VD2caUxcxMMIkWw2MSlKBRMjQq65GdnT9u+AI5gF/3gWx0zvhVT AtL6NJ38OsuZR2UoajNwO2z+6QE2qItalZ6Y8K7h9gDSC3tSa0g2wsbAsIaXKpizauK8 aw0pn7oCiBHNnNNNVH4Tisy37+Knec8sEpq6CA0tRmjaTezFaCtbl42vF7ntgJe7mYpd tGBQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AGRZ1gJejTm/3xwc/XNvqNVbCHHwIQYsSH9jut18dBAZaYjjTd0/c/Cc e64gF+i5D/9zGHdEeK67tMGCz9+aO88W7eO77U0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AJdET5cTa83yVugNlzBvrz/2JgRQW5zuHfbVWe3OA96qSxI/cCLX+5JEZAe4Stw/hYI9ky7z68y8xfmpWZJxEnnUhtw= X-Received: by 2002:ac2:4354:: with SMTP id o20mr1419229lfl.129.1542727022910; Tue, 20 Nov 2018 07:17:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <835zwskge7.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152565 Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 7:37 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > This is a feature request: I'd like to be able to display an empty line > > as a non-empty line with images in it. > > I don't think I understand this. Can you elaborate what that means? > > In case I did understand: did you try an overlay with after-string > that has an image display property on it? First, thanks for the suggestion; sorry, it simply hadn't occurred to me that after/before-string can do things display specifications cannot. Obviously I'm still thinking of a display-propertized display specification string as the more natural thing to do, and things are slightly different (cursor placement, modifications, highlighting of included text) with the after-string solution, but I'll try to get things working that way. Thanks again.