From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: fni-news@pirilampo.org, 20510@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20510: 25.0.50; Underscore hidden by underline
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:39:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftkee18u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=-ghYMLHfb=ViMGUUVHzdz4Npivy8F4PivLwkM=j0uCw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:10:24 +0200)
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:10:24 +0200
> Cc: Fabrice Niessen <fni-news@pirilampo.org>, 20510@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> I mean: can't the hl-line-mode code be written in a way that the
> >> underline goes in the background of the character, that is that every
> >> pixel of every character gets written "over" the underline line?
> >
> > hl-line-mode cannot control that, and nothing on the Lisp level can.
> >
> > When hl-line-mode puts its overlay on a line, the characters of that
> > line have the hl-line face merged with their face, with the result
> > that each character of that line will have the underline face in the
> > color you specify. That's all Lisp can do; then along comes the
> > display engine and redraws the characters in this new merged face.
> > The C code which draws characters is written so that we first draw the
> > background, then the characters, then the underline.
> >
> > So what you are actually asking is that the order of drawing the
> > underline (and also overline, strike-through, etc.) is changed so that
> > these attributes are drawn _before_ the characters. That should be
> > possible by changing the order in the C code, but I have no idea what
> > that will do in other situations. It's probably not TRT at least when
> > we draw images and other similar stuff instead of characters.
> >
> > Perhaps someone who knows more than I do about GUI display back-end
> > could tell if this is a safe change.
>
> It sounds to me like this is not something we are interested in doing.
> I'm closing this as wontfix.
I can also suggest trying to play with the following variables, which
affect how the underline is displayed:
underline-minimum-offset
x-underline-at-descent-line
x-use-underline-position-properties
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-05 20:13 bug#20510: 25.0.50; Underscore hidden by underline Fabrice Niessen
2015-05-06 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83mw1hr5nc.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-06 19:00 ` Fabrice Niessen
2015-05-06 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-30 0:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-30 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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