From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Underlining in compile.el Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:37:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119853736 29948 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2005 06:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 27 08:28:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmn6s-0002e4-4C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:28:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DmnES-0007hG-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:36:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmmh4-0003sN-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:02:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmmgx-0003r5-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:02:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dmmgx-0003R7-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DmmPA-0003at-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:43:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DmmJg-0004JF-7p; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 01:37:56 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39616 To me, it still seems like the entirely wrong approach to add new faces everywhere something may look like a link. The idea that beginners will be less confused if links are underlined seems inherently plausible. As for adding new faces, that's the implementation I saw how to write, but I agree it is ugly. I'm suggesting that someone else implement this feature without defining any new faces, by changing the font-lock specs. However, ISTR that this complaint was made when there were bugs causing too much of the line to be highlighted. If fixing those bugs was enough to solve the problem, we don't need to do any more. Would those that found the situation confusing before please speak up now?