From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen'" <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 4710@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4710: 23.1.50; Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:20:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4515BD8DE6284A249A67403FC1292685@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlitkjod8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> >> "If it hurts, don't do that" comes to mind.
To my mind also, FWIW.
> > But it does look really ugly. :-) This single behavioural
> > tic is what makes underlines undesirable. If somebody had
> > a good idea how to fix this in general, that would be a win.
>
> Maybe someone could come up with a neater way to display "face
> continuations" (face that applies to the text where a line is
> wrapped). For underline, we could put a short bit of dotted underline
> as in:
> foo bar baz
> -------?
> toto titi turlu
> ?----
Why assume that underlined whitespace should not show an underline?
Likewise for other face attributes.
Down that path lies dwimmadness.
At the very least, any such fiddling should be done only for indentation (i.e.,
in the code that indents text). And it certainly should be under user control
(e.g., optional).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 20:49 bug#4710: 23.1.50; Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries Lennart Borgman
2011-09-18 8:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 9:12 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-09-18 9:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-18 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-18 9:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-19 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-19 21:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2011-09-20 1:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-20 2:21 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-20 2:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-20 14:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-07-14 4:15 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-07-14 11:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-07-14 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-14 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 9:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-20 14:04 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-20 21:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-21 18:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-21 20:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 1:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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