From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: face vs. mouse-face text property
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:11:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RpcPq-0003eF-NY@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C420F324-C971-4C5D-9237-B032699DD779@gmail.com> (message from chad on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:04:39 -0800)
> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:04:39 -0800
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> >> The characters you propose are much less popular, so run greater risk
> >> of being not covered by the console fonts.
> >
> > E.g., PuTTY in UTF-8 display mode shows them as empty rectangles.
>
> I trust your experience far more than mine these days, but I have to wonder if empty rectangle might not be good enough for the suggested use case.
I doubt that. The issue at hand is how to display mouse-highlighted
newline so that it is clear to the user it's a newline that (e.g.)
will be inserted when she clicks on it in *Completions* buffer.
Showing an empty rectangle hardly accomplishes that effect.
> I assume that C-x = DTRT with those empty rectangles?
You meant "C-u C-x =", I presume. This does show the name of the
character, but you should have the cursor on it, which might be
tricky in the *Completions* buffer. Also, at least some methods of
displaying something instead of a newline (e.g., display strings)
cause "C-x =" to display information about the underlying character,
which may or may not explain what is being shown and why.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-24 9:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-18 21:34 face vs. mouse-face text property Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-19 7:20 ` Chong Yidong
2012-01-19 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-20 20:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-21 10:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-22 22:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-23 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-23 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 14:43 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-01-23 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-23 15:40 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-01-23 18:47 ` chad
2012-01-23 20:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-23 21:09 ` chad
2012-01-24 3:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-24 7:04 ` chad
2012-01-24 9:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-01-24 11:14 ` chad
2012-01-24 15:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-24 16:49 ` Richard Stallman
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