Re: colorizing empty space

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > There is no way to do it. A change in Emacs display code is needed.
>> Is it too late to ask for specifiers? :-)
> That wouldn't help unless the display code was taught to respect
> them.  That would be a big change, and Emacs Lisp (vs. XEmacs Lisp)
> seems to be moving in the opposite direction with at least an informal
> deprecation of frame-local variables.

OTOH with face-remapping-alist you should be able to do just what you
want: remap the `default' face to something with
a different background.  It works for text-scale-increase.


        Stefan