[COMMIT] Re: [Q] New "flush" face property

Jerry James james at xemacs.org
Tue Dec 27 12:58:06 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> The problem is that "ragged" normally applies to the text.  If a face
> has 'shrink true with (fill-paragraph 'justify) you will get a
> "non-ragged" block of text in the current face with a right margin
> (ie, past fill-column) in the default face.
>
> To be technically accurate, we'd want to name it something like
> do-not-spill-to-edge-of-window :-) but that's way too long.
>
> How about "restricted" or "bounded" or "contained" (ie, by the region
> containing printing content) or something like that?
>
> Or how about "shrinkwrap" (the buffer text)?  "shrink-to-fit"?  (Yes,
> I'm getting silly, but even so those are probably better than anything
> else I've suggested so far. :-/  And they're close to Didier's suggestion.)

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