Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH 1/2] display: replace the "$" continuation character with ">" and "<"

[Benno Schulenberg]

Op 07-02-19 om 21:22 schreef David Ramsey:
> (The second patch also needs to be updated to display spotlight()'s ">"
> in reverse video, but I don't have time to do that right now.)

I've done that in the upcoming patch set, in the now-third patch.

But I'm not sure whether I like that.  I think I prefer the spotlight
to cover also the ">" continuation character, because to me it makes
it clearer that the match continues beyond the window's edge.  When
the continuation character has a different color plus background from
the spotlighted text, it makes it seem as if the spotlighted text stops
right before the ">".  So probably I'm going to remove that part of
the patch again.  It would match the behavior in the prompt bar, where
the continuation character is not highlighted specially either.

Benno

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