Re: colorizing empty space

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Daniel Colascione writes:

 > > There is no way to do it. A change in Emacs display code is needed.
 > 
 > Is it too late to ask for specifiers? :-)

That wouldn't help unless the display code was taught to respect
them.  That would be a big change, and Emacs Lisp (vs. XEmacs Lisp)
seems to be moving in the opposite direction with at least an informal
deprecation of frame-local variables.