From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: narrow color bar using display properties Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:46:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lia29xay.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362498406 9513 80.91.229.3 (5 Mar 2013 15:46:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 15:46:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 05 16:47:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UCu57-0004d9-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:47:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCu4m-0004r3-2o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:46:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCu4W-0004m0-1H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCu4Q-0004NP-Ig for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UCu4Q-0004ND-BN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:46:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UCu4f-0004DV-L5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:46:41 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-187-203.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.187.203]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:46:41 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-187-203.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:46:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-187-203.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Y64fI1kGp6AuYAVyX1qhFSgmIg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89365 Archived-At: > I've got my cursor-type set to a colored bar, and looking at it today I > thought it would be very nice if I could create a similar effect with > code: presumably using text properties (I'm guessing the display > property) to lay a bar of color (either background color or a > transparent foreground color) over existing text, only a couple of > pixels wide and aligned left, without otherwise disturbing the placement > of the text beneath. I can't think of any way to get this effect with the current display tricks provided to Elisp. Stefan