Subject: bug#32337: 26.1; display-line-numbers-mode makes cursor ill-aligned when number face is changed

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:46:49 +0300

> From: Carlos Pita <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:27:31 -0300
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> some feedback: one problem I find with this approach is that, when
> leaving the buffer, the filled up square cursor turns into an empty
> box and then, since the face is smaller, it becomes apparent that it's
> being cropped at the top and at the bottom (it looks like two vertical
> lines, not one box). Isn't it possible to use the smaller font just
> for the beginning of the line, as it is for the lines above EOB?

Not easily, because Emacs generally uses the face of the last
character drawn for the cursor.