From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: colorizing empty space Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oc8la5u2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8739og5rfu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296012225 30858 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2011 03:23:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Ted Zlatanov , Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 26 04:23:41 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Phvyu-0003ih-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:23:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phvys-0006nS-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58195 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Phvyn-0006n9-Sa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phvym-0005Wh-NF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:33 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:48931 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Phvym-0005Wc-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:32 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAGMiP01MCo4O/2dsb2JhbACkcnS6LIVPBIUXj2s X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,378,1291611600"; d="scan'208";a="89249764" Original-Received: from 76-10-142-14.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.142.14]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 25 Jan 2011 22:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id BE40F66102; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:23:31 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8739og5rfu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:28:37 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134978 Archived-At: >> > 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