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Subject: bug#33913: 26.1;
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Please consider letting users easily (e.g. user option) not highlight a
> newline character when it ends a comment, such as in Lisp.
>
> The effect should be to highlight only the chars of the line, starting
> with `comment-start', up to but not including the newline char.
>
> (I never would have noticed how annoying the default behavior is if I
> hadn't tried putting a background color on comments, as the OP did.  I
> don't even think it should be the default behavior to highlight the
> newline char.)

I agree that this would have been useful earlier, but Emacs now has
support for not extending faces to the end of the line when the newline
has a face, so this no longer seems pertinent, and I'm closing this bug
report.  If others think that it's still worth doing something about,
please reopen.

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