Subject: bug#39115: 26.3; eww consecutive links look like one link with mouse-over

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:28:13 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:18:04 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> [email-masked] writes:
> 
> > I think it is enough to replace 'mouse-face property from 'highlight
> > to (list 'highlight).
> 
> Ah, yes, that works, because the mouse-face is compared with eq.
> 
> Does anybody know whether there are any drawbacks to doing this (besides
> having an extra cons cell)?  Presumably the display would be slightly
> slower, but probably not noticeable.

Yes, it will slow down redisplay, so I'm against doing this in core.
Lisp applications which want that can use this kludge, of course.