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Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays

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From: Gregory Heytings <ghe <at> sdf.org>
To: 42347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42347: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:38:38 +0000

This should be merged with bug #42307.  (It was sent earlier, and for some 
reason stayed in the mail queue during a week.)

>
>> 1. calculate the overlay it it would have been displayed by Emacs 
>> 21-26.
>>
>> 2. remove all pixel columns on the right *and on the left* of the 
>> overlay which have no "content" (that is, no characters on the right, 
>> and whitespace characters on the left).
>
> What would be the definition of "whitespace" for this purpose?
>

I think the regexp "[ \t\r\n]*" would be appropriate.

Gregory

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