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From: | chad |
Subject: | Re: face vs. mouse-face text property |
Date: | Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:14:21 -0800 |
On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
I suppose that there are tricky edges, but I thought that the first-order problem was being able to tell a newline or tab apart from nothing. If the use-case is more complicated, then I'll certainly believe that `something not-normal but not-nothing' is not sufficient. I had mostly hoped to improve upon Lars' `4 chars of garbage' experience.
Yes, that's what I meant; thanks. In truth, I have quite a bit of very old tty-only experience, but almost all of it predates reasonable tty+mouse setups, so I tend to forget the mouse part in this domain. I did check that mouse-selecting such a character in order to describe-char it was a bust, but I assumed (probably wrongly) that the mouse-case wasn't as interesting for the tty users as a the keyboard-motion case. For the mouse case, I was wondering idly about a tooltip version of describe-char, but it seemed unlikely to be as useful as a special face for this purpose. Thanks! *Chad |
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