GNU bug report logs - #23574
24.5; Overzealous underlining in emacs-nox

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Message #70 received at 23574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 23574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rudalics <at> gmx.at, cwoodbury <at> azavea.com,
 john.b.mastro <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#23574: 24.5; Overzealous underlining in emacs-nox
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:55:55 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 20:18:06 -0400
> Cc: Colin Woodbury <cwoodbury <at> azavea.com>, martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, 23574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 
> 	John Mastro <john.b.mastro <at> gmail.com>
> 
> I think it makes sense to not do the face extension by default.

Not even for the background color?  Or are you talking only about the
underline?

> For the case I mentioned earlier, magit isn't actually underlining
> text, it just wants to make some horizontal lines. It would be nice to
> have some way to ask the display engine to do this directly.

There's a way of doing that which we use in the VC commit log buffer,
I believe it uses the line-height property.  (I thought magit was
using that as well, no?)

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