On 2021-12-04, at 08:22, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes: >> 2. We modify Emacs itself to somehow highlight the ZWS. There is (kind >> of) a precedent – a no-breaking space is already fontified with >> =nobreak-space= face. At the very least, make whitespace-mode somehow >> show ZWSs (which it doesn't now, and I'd probably say it's a bug). >> >> I know that my point 2. is a bit controversial, since it could lead to >> alignment issues where a ZWS is displayed as something with a positive >> width. OTOH, even now changing the face of a ZWS leads to a narrow >> (1-pixel wide) line of a different color. Is there a way to make it >> a bit stronger? > > We can try to create an accent. Try the following: > 1. Open new empty org buffer > 2. Disable font-lock-mode > 3. M-: (insert (compose-string "a" nil nil (list ?a '(bl . tl) ?␣))) > > The result will look like on the attached image. I'm not sure if I like that idea - looks great, but I'd be a bit afraid of unintended consequences. Either way, personally I can live with ZWSs in my Org files, so whatever is decided, it's fine with me. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl
