GNU bug report logs - #34286
M-x man grep weird lines

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 13:32:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34286 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34286: M-x man grep weird lines
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:25:03 +0800
Well then something else needs to be fixed.

All that hard work to make man pages look good,

but then this obvious error connecting unrelated items,

just because they are in the same face or something.

You must admit it looks terrible.

>>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
EZ> tags 34286 notabug
EZ> thanks

>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>> <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
>> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:17:17 +0800
>> 
>> $ emacs -nw -q
>> M-x man grep
>> 
>> Do you see those weird lines?

EZ> That's normal: faces straddle the newline.  In this case, it's the
EZ> underline face, but you will see the same if you use a face with a
EZ> non-default background color.





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