Re: :extend t inheritance

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Should I merge this into master finally?

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 07:51:07AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:13:40 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
>> Cc: ingo.lohmar@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Ohh right, that's the other commit. When fixing this issue I found another error I didn't see in tui. After EOL we
>> need to fill with the merged filtered face. To do that we need to add a stretch glyph; but we were just adding a
>> normal glyph with a ' ' so the face was not really extended, just the background color because the X display
>> engine always do that. But, for example, underline was not extended. This commit fixes just that.
>> stretch_ascent was moved out of the if(column_indicator) because the new stretch_glyphs needs it any way
>> and the two comments were 1) for old moved code not there anymore and 2) to describe the situation of the
>> glyphs color extension (mention in previous paragraph) that we don't need to work around anymore because
>> the glyph fills the entire screen now..
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>I'm still a bit confused: was the problem you found happening in GUI
>frames or in text-mode frames?  You say "tui", but then talk about
>something X does...
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