GNU bug report logs - #37774
27.0.50; new :extend attribute broke visuals of all themes and other packages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrey Orst <andreyorst <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37774: 27.0.50; new :extend attribute broke visuals of all
 themes and other packages
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:08:39 +0300

On 17.10.2019 11:25, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > Also I looked how other applications extend diff blocks, and e.g.
>  > GitLab extends diff background colors to the window right edge,
>  > not to EOL, for example,
>  > 
> https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/3d6075e3ee8c447f8974b37007a1b1ae1af8917c 
> 
> 
> With Firefox these diffs are boxed in a subarea of the Firefox window.
> They do not start or extend at the window edges and text in these
> boxes is static, can neither overflow into a newline nor be broken.

I think we can think of this "subarea" as directly corresponding to an 
Emacs window for the purposes of this discussion, when we think how 
diff-mode should display things.
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