Subject: Re: bug#36858: 27.0.50; display bugs with display-fill-column-indicator-mode

From: Carsten Dominik <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:10:36 +0200

Hi Eli,

I have now made this configurable in org-mode, through a variable
`org-fontify-whole-block-delimiter-line'.
The default is t, because this is how Org have been working for a while now.

- Carsten

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 4:42 PM Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > From: Carsten Dominik <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 16:17:18 +0200
> > Cc: Nicolas Goaziou <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
> Ergus <[email-masked]>,
> >       [email-masked]
> >
> >  So if you think the current display looks good, how about making it
> >  optional?  Then this could be turned off to avoid the inconsistent
> >  display in those use cases where it matters.
> >
> > It is possible to make it optional.  However, it seems to me that this
> is a bug in the display engine that should
> > be fixed anyway, don't you agree?
>
> It's not a bug, it's how the display engine was designed to work.  If
> we decide to change the design, and stop extending the face of the
> last character to the edge of the window, when the face covers the
> newline, then the issue with display-fill-column-indicator-mode in Org
> mode will also go away.  But we haven't yet made such a decision, see
> the discussion which starts here:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-08/msg00132.html
>