Subject: Re: bug#15815: 24.3.50; distant-foreground face attribute and org-hide face

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 08:51:06 -0500

>> FWIW, hiding text by setting foreground == background is the wrong
>> way to do it IMO.

AFAIK there's no other way offered by Emacs.  `invisible' actually
removes the text from the output rather than leaving blank space, so it
doesn't provide the same feature.

        Stefan