GNU bug report logs - #49630
28.0.50; C-h o buffer layout

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 49630 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49630: 28.0.50; C-h o buffer layout
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:57:44 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:08:29 -0400
> 
> I did C-h o dired-hide-details-mode to see what it would look like.
> It gave me a white bar across the screen which looked like a mode line
> except that it did not contain any text.  Eventually I figured out
> this line was part of the buffer and was white because of its faces,
> but I think that is a confusing thing to do.

It's supposed to be a separator line, and displays as a thin line with
inverted colors on GUI frames.  But TTY frames cannot display such
thin lines.  Perhaps we should replace it with a line of dashes on TTY
frames, for better UX.  Patches welcome.

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