Feature Request: Negative Extra Line Spacing

[Sethur]

Just a quick feature request: Since a setting of Extra Line Spacing=0 (and the necessary adaption to the size of the matching braces) still yields an unnecessary large gap between lines, it would be fantastic to allow for negative values of Extra Line Spacing

[zufuliu]

what about set Extra Line Spacing to empty? is it still has large gaps between lines?
and which font do you use? Consolas, Segoe UI, or other font?

[zufuliu]

I seems misunderstood your problem.
I think what cause your problem is that all line in Scintilla have same height, which is the maximum line height calculated from all sty;es.
we have size:+1 in Matching Brace, Matching Brace Error and Whitespace global styles, so setting a font with 11 pt, actually make the line height to the value calculated by the same font at 12 pt.

[zufuliu]

Negative extra line spacing is added by 8d56a73.

[Sethur]

@zufuliu : Just to clear this up: I am aware that the minimum line height is also determined by the size settings of Matching Brace, etc., since those will normally produce larger braces that need to be accounted for. However, even with those settings all set to 0 when using Consolas or Courier New at different sizes (e.g. 10), the gap is unnecessarily large. When using negative extra space, one could further reduce the gap (to the point of the letters starting to overlap).

[Sethur]

I see you already did a comment on this. Thanks for the quick action.

[zufuliu]

Maybe it's even better to change matching braces to indicators (with semi-transparent background color), without increasing font size.

[Sethur]

Yes, as default setting, that would be one way to avoid the additional gap.

[zufuliu]

Matching Brace and Matching Brace Error changed to indicators in 4bad717.

[zufuliu]

This feature is completed, no style increasing line height now.