From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32950: 27.0.50; Strange display bug in *Help* buffer Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:59:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83efczyxmm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83pnwo1857.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2h0yzrf.fsf@gnu.org> <5BBC5C67.3060508@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539097492 5027 195.159.176.226 (9 Oct 2018 15:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 15:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 32950@debbugs.gnu.org, fgunbin@fastmail.fm To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 17:04:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tZ1-0001BT-D4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:04:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tb7-0004Ci-Qi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58378) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tUT-0007YP-Vo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tUS-0006ic-Mp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tUR-0006gt-6A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:00:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tUQ-0002s7-Vs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 11:00:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:00:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32950 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 32950-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32950.153909719010995 (code B ref 32950); Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32950) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Oct 2018 14:59:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42463 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tUD-0002rH-PI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:59:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48187) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tUC-0002r5-If for 32950@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:59:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tTs-0006Bn-2a for 32950@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:59:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tTl-00066i-7A; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:59:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2364 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g9tTj-0007y6-Ld; Tue, 09 Oct 2018 10:59:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <5BBC5C67.3060508@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:44:39 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:151044 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:44:39 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > CC: 32950@debbugs.gnu.org > > > I'm sure on GUI it serves its purpose well, when it's really thin line. > > But on TTY, as I already wrote, nothing except "what happened?" comes to > > (my) mind. When you are accustomed to the usual behavior of Help > > buffers to replace contents when following a link, this special-case > > adding is really confusing. > > Would it be difficult to replace it with a line of dashes on TTYs? You mean, apart of adding some code to make that happen? No, I don't think so. But don't be surprised if someone then comes up crying that their favorite feature was removed.