Re: colorizing empty space

[Daniel Colascione]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Daniel Colascione
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2010/12/16 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>>> I wonder if there's a way to give all the lines max(paragraph lines)+1
>>> width using "visual" space, so at least one "visual" space is added on
>>> the right (shown with x):
>>
>> On another note, I've been looking for a way to colorize the area of a
>> window after EOB. I have a compile mode hook that turns the window
>> background red on error. Using text properties, the best I can do is
>> change the color of the text itself. The region between the end of the
>> text and the bottom of the window is still the frame's default color.
>> If the window is in its own frame, I can just change the frame
>> background color, but I'd like to be able to achieve this effect for
>> normal windows. Adding extra newlines will work, but that distorts the
>> scroll bar position, M-> handling, and so on. Any ideas?
>
> There is no way to do it. A change in Emacs display code is needed.

Is it too late to ask for specifiers? :-)