Re: colorizing empty space

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.

Using face-remapping-alist with `default' doesn't do the proper thing
after EOB though.  I think this is because the area after EOB is handled
specially in various ways, instead of by the general redisplay code
path.

It's a bug (I tried for a while to fix it, but got too confused by the
redisplay code), but I suppose doesn't show up for typical uses of
face-remapping-alist, which tend to only modify font attributes that
affect the text itself.

[You can see it even with text-scale-increase though:  make the text
size really big, and notice that although the blinking cursor is
appropriately sized when in the middle of the text, it has the wrong
size when positioned at EOB...]

-Miles

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