From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, miles@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Box graphic tweak
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:51:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tl7vd55idg4.fsf@m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49AEB9D768C84AADAD221D9DBE22E44B@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)
In article <49AEB9D768C84AADAD221D9DBE22E44B@us.oracle.com>, "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> > ??? The default box's line-width of mode-line is -1 to make the
> > height of the mode-line the same as the other default lines.
> And I tried to stress that a setting of -1 is important,
Ah, I didn't read the other mails of the thread.
> and that users need to
> be able to adjust whatever new boxing features we might add:
>>> More importantly, such an appearance difference should in any
>>> case be under user control - just as users can today control
>>> the box outline width and even whether it extends outside the
>>> char size or within it (using a negative width). It must
>>> not be forced.
>>>
>>> IOW, if you would like to make such a feature available to
>>> users, great, but it should be as optional as the other `box'
>>> attributes.
>>>
>>> (The ability to use a negative box width is important, BTW,
>>> and your new feature should not force a boxed char to always
>>> be larger than a normal char - there needs to be some way to
>>> control the overall size.
I agree.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-14 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 5:14 Box graphic tweak Chong Yidong
2010-10-08 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-08 13:59 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-08 14:13 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-09 3:46 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-14 4:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-10-14 4:34 ` Drew Adams
2010-10-14 4:45 ` Miles Bader
2010-10-14 4:51 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2010-10-14 6:04 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-08 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2010-11-27 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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