Re: Background color past the end of the buffer

[Yuri D'Elia]

On 13/07/15 04:08, Vaidheeswaran C wrote:
> On Monday 13 July 2015 12:24 AM, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
>> In a hack I'm doing, I want to define a binary boundary in
>> the text (in the sense: above/below), and I do that by changing the
>> background color of one of the two.
>>
>> I just overlay the region I'm interested in, but I want to extend the
>> background color of the face to the end of the frame, since it creates a
>> visually ambiguous situation otherwise (besides not looking good).
>>
>> Maybe I can just temporarily extend the buffer content instead, but I
>> would loose the EOF fringe indicator and need to calculate how much
>> lines I need to append...
> 
> 
> A picture is worth a thousand words.  Why not share a picture.

Forgot about this, but there was one test I needed it for:

https://github.com/k-talo/volatile-highlights.el/pull/9

for a true inverse highlight you'd need to fill the background correctly.