Subject: Re: bug#4710: 23.1.50; Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:42:21 -0400

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:20:51 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Deniz Dogan <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > I still see it: http://i.imgur.com/abMZu.png
> 
> Oh, that problem.  Yes, when folding text that contains text properties,
> the spaces at the beginning of the next line will also contain those
> text properties.
> 
> This is usually what we want -- if, for instance, the text is a button,
> you don't want the text to suddenly become two buttons just because it's
> been folded.
> 
> But visually with underlines, it looks quite unfortunate.

"If it hurts, don't do that" comes to mind.

My vote is "won't fix".