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narrow color bar using display properties
From: |
Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
narrow color bar using display properties |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:26:45 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
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.
Right now the most promising approach seems to be the image display
property (presumably I could use the :data specification just to draw a
block of colored pixels), except that if I understand it correctly that
will replace the underlying text, not add to it.
Does anyone have advice on achieving this?
Thanks,
Eric
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