From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#42347: Feature request: Visual block attribute for overlays Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:49:34 +0000 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30236"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) Cc: 42347@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 09:50:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFha-0007kX-5M for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:50:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33692 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFhY-0002EY-Kv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFhS-0002EL-9a for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFhS-00049M-0g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFhR-0002nl-UK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:50:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Gregory Heytings Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:50:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 42347 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 42347-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B42347.159471298110737 (code B ref 42347); Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:50:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 42347) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jul 2020 07:49:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50046 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFh7-0002n7-CU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:57130) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jvFh5-0002mz-M7 for 42347@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 03:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 06E7nctY012198 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:49:38 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 06E7nbga006535; Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:49:37 GMT In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:182982 Archived-At: > >> The previous behavior can be obtained with the ":extend t" face >> attribute. > > Only on an individual basis, right? If you want to get the previous > behavior everywhere, do you need to change every overlay? > AFAIK, yes. > > Or is there an option for that? If not, why not? > > And is there a way to get the previous behavior by default, and > something that does the opposite of `:extend' for individual cases where > you want the new behavior? > > If not, why not? > I don't know, but I do not see this as a problem. After all, if one wants the previous behavior, only a handful of faces need to be updated. Apparently the new behavior was considered better. The NEWS item about this (in NEWS.27) states: "This is to make Emacs behave more like other GUI applications with respect to displaying faces that cross line boundaries." Gregory