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
next prev parent 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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