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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-07-07 17:55:24 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2020-07-07 17:55:24 +0300 |
| commit | 1279bdb072786d41d25eb968f894764ba2573ede (patch) | |
| tree | 29c9e7fce8fb7b2a30fca617276cbfb413920987 | |
| parent | 71fc003860043487534379ceeaa61ac4a7617756 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-1279bdb072786d41d25eb968f894764ba2573ede.tar.gz | |
Another clarification of left/right-fringe display spec
* doc/lispref/display.texi (Fringe Bitmaps): More accurate
description of what FACE means in the left/right-fringe display
spec.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/display.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi index 19e0fdf0b12..ecb9cff8a2a 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/display.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi @@ -4278,9 +4278,11 @@ a display specification has the form @var{fringe} is either the symbol @code{left-fringe} or @code{right-fringe}. @var{bitmap} is a symbol identifying the bitmap to display. The optional @var{face} names a face whose foreground and -background colors are to be used to display the bitmap; this face is -automatically merged with the @code{fringe} face. If @var{face} is -omitted, that means to use the @code{default} face. +background colors are to be used to display the bitmap, using the +attributes of the @code{fringe} face for colors that @var{face} didn't +specify. If @var{face} is omitted, that means to use the attributes +of the @code{default} face for the colors which the @code{fringe} face +didn't specify. For instance, to display an arrow in the left fringe, using the @code{warning} face, you could say something like: |