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From: Toby Cubitt <tsc25@cantab.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11249: 24.1.50; Overlay with face property causes	calendar buffer to scroll
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:05:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120422100503.GA23154@c3po.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nsctgb8.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:46:03AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
> Toby Cubitt <tsc25@cantab.net> writes:
> > Was there some reason to reject Eli's suggested fix of enlarging the
> > calendar window by 1 line? As it stands, if anyone customizes the new
> > org-date-selected face to be bold (the highlighted date *is* a little
> > less visible now), it will cause the same problem as before. And the fact
> > that it's caused by making the font bold is not at all obvious...at
> > least, it wasn't obvious to me! Eli's fix works more generally.
> 
> This general solution comes with a cost -- enlarging the window by
> one-line for everyone just because a few users will use bold fonts and 
> have a problem while displaying... does not feel right to me.

Fair enough.

> > Anyway, since I now know how to patch things if I do decide I want a bold
> > font, it's not a big issue for me.
> >
> > In the patch I posted, I also took the opportunity to set `cursor-type'
> > to nil when opening the calendar in `org-read-date'. The cursor obscures
> > one digit of the selected date, making that bit harder to read (as well
> > as looking ugly). Did you intend to reject this change too?
> 
> I did because I found the not-bold-anymore face wasn't visible enough,
> and the shallow cursor made it visible.
> 
> I use inverse-video now for this face, so cursor-type nil is okay, 
> I applied a patch with this.

Inverse-video is a good solution - thanks!

Toby
-- 
Dr T. S. Cubitt
Mathematics and Quantum Information group
Department of Mathematics
Complutense University
Madrid, Spain

email: tsc25@cantab.net
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-22 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <83zkaczq1v.fsf@gnu.org>
2012-04-15 21:04 ` bug#11249: 24.1.50; Overlay with face property causes calendar buffer to scroll Toby Cubitt
2012-04-16  2:50   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 13:41     ` Toby Cubitt
2012-04-20 11:57       ` Bastien
2012-04-21 19:34         ` Toby Cubitt
2012-04-22  6:46           ` Bastien
2012-04-22 10:05             ` Toby Cubitt [this message]
2012-04-25 21:30             ` Matt Lundin
2012-04-25 23:10               ` Matt Lundin
2012-04-26  8:59                 ` Bastien
2012-04-26 13:19                   ` Toby Cubitt
2012-04-26 13:43                     ` Bastien

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