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Re: Question about display engine


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: Question about display engine
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 23:37:32 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> I think that these are the most extended approaches around (so we don't
> need to reinvent the wheel) and Eli should make the design choice so
> we/he can start implementing that; otherwise it will be forgotten after
> hours and hours of arguments and at the end there will be always
> somebody unhappy.

While designing please consider supporting at least 3 options:
- extend highlighting to the window edge as most faces do now;
- highlight only to the end of lines as underline does now;
- limit highlighting to a fixed customizable column like
  display-fill-column-indicator defaulting to fill-column.



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