From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: cursor doesn't show through transparent images in emacs 22, unlike emacs 21 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:51:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <851wqpgxtp.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85ejuojey3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157979222 9003 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 12:53:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 14:53:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMlIB-0003vm-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:53:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMlIB-0007B7-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:53:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMlH8-0006jc-VD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GMlH8-0006jP-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:52:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMlH7-0006jM-Tr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GMlIO-0008AV-J3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CC21A50077; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:52:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: (Robert J. Chassell's message of "Mon\, 11 Sep 2006 11\:56\:31 +0000 \(UTC\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:59670 Archived-At: "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > The cursor is shown as a 1-pixel wide line drawn along edge > of the combined image + border area. > > Ah! Am I right in understanding that you mean the cursor is a loop as > wide [first meaning of `wide'] as the combined image + border, and > that the loop is one pixel wide [second meaning of `wide']? Yes. > Am I right in understanding that you mean the width, second meaning, > of the loop is one pixel, or on one of my screens, a little less than > 0.2 mm but in others more than 0.25 mm? Yes, a pixel is a pixel is a pixel... > When you say the 1-pixel wide line is `hollow', what do you mean? It is similar to the other types of "hollow cursors" we have -- i.e. the rest of the underlying glyph is still visible. > > Do you mean the center of the loop is the image, i.e., the cursor does > not cover it up, Yes. > and that the 1-pixel wide line is some color such as > black or red? Yes, it drawn in the current "cursor color". Have you never seen Emacs draw a hollow cursor before? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk