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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
	Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>,
	Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: colorizing empty space
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvei80pcwe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739og5rfu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:28:37 +0900")

>> > There is no way to do it. A change in Emacs display code is needed.
>> Is it too late to ask for specifiers? :-)
> That wouldn't help unless the display code was taught to respect
> them.  That would be a big change, and Emacs Lisp (vs. XEmacs Lisp)
> seems to be moving in the opposite direction with at least an informal
> deprecation of frame-local variables.

OTOH with face-remapping-alist you should be able to do just what you
want: remap the `default' face to something with
a different background.  It works for text-scale-increase.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-16 19:13 colorizing empty space Ted Zlatanov
2010-12-20 10:50 ` Chong Yidong
2011-01-24 18:17   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-24 22:16     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 23:02       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 23:14         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-24 23:26           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-25  8:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-01-25 10:17   ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-25 12:51     ` Daniel Colascione
2011-01-26  2:28       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-26  3:23         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-01-26  4:46           ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  6:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26  6:50               ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26  6:52               ` Daniel Colascione

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