From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: face vs. mouse-face text property Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:06 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87pqegeluf.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326975561 25022 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2012 12:19:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:19:21 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael_heerdegen@web.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 13:19:15 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 1RnqxW-0004g7-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:19:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnqxV-0008Ay-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnqxT-0008AQ-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnqxP-0000N8-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnqxP-0000N3-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RnqxO-0007ia-SN; Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:19:07 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pqegeluf.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:34:32 +0100) 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:147724 Archived-At: > From: Michael Heerdegen > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:34:32 +0100 > Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, michael_heerdegen@web.de > > My question is: is this a bug, or intended behavior? It is intended behavior, in that the implementation of this feature explicitly supports mouse highlight only on the following parts of the display: . mode line . header line . left and right margins (NOT fringes!) . text > If it is intended, why, and is there a way to get the mouse > highlighting nevertheless work or to override the default behavior? There's no way around this current, no. > In my scenario, it is important that the mouse-face works also for > strings consisting of newlines, to indicate that it's clickable > text. Could you please describe your scenario in more detail? Empty lines have no text, so it's unclear how can you talk about "clickable text" in that case.