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23.1.50; Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 'Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen' <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 4710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4710: 23.1.50; Bad display of underlines crossing line boundaries
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:38:03 -0400

>> > But it does look really ugly.  :-)  This single behavioural 
>> > tic is what makes underlines undesirable.  If somebody had
>> > a good idea how to fix this in general, that would be a win.
>> Maybe someone could come up with a neater way to display "face
>> continuations" (face that applies to the text where a line is
>> wrapped).  For underline, we could put a short bit of dotted underline
>> as in:
>>     foo bar baz
>>         -------⋯
>>     toto titi tur
>>    ⋯----
> Why assume that underlined whitespace should not show an underline?
> Likewise for other face attributes.

I believe you're confused: I'm talking about line-wrapping done by the
redisplay engine.  I.e. there's no newline in the above example (but
there are curly arrows in the fringe instead).


        Stefan

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