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26.3; 'mouse-face highlighting is extended beyond EOB

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: larsi <at> gnus.org
Cc: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com, 39245 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39245: 26.3; 'mouse-face highlighting is extended beyond EOB
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:50:11 +0200

> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:44:07 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com, 39245 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > But what do you think of the mouse-face behaviour?  
> 
> I'd be damned if I ever agree to hack that piece of code again.
> Making it DTRT with bidirectional text was a heck of a ride at the
> time, and I have no reason to want to take it again.
> 
> People who are annoyed enough by the corner cases presented in this
> bug report are welcome to try their teeth, I promise to lend any help
> I can to those brave souls.

IOW, I can live with this behavior without problems, and could even
argue it should be expected.

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