GNU bug report logs - #4710
23.1.50; Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:55:09 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 4710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: deniz <at> dogan.se, 4710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4710: 23.1.50;
	Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:42:21 -0400

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:20:51 +0200
> Cc: 4710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Deniz Dogan <deniz <at> dogan.se> 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".
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 13 days ago.

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