Subject: bug#59141: 28.1.90; Face :extend when all the line but trailing \n is invisible

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:05:53 +0200

> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:01:38 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> >> or the ellipsis glyph to be disabled with something like:
> >> >>
> >> >>   (or standard-display-table (setq standard-display-table (make-display-table)))
> >> >>   (set-char-table-extra-slot standard-display-table 4 (vector))
> >> >
> >> > Why not just set selective-display-ellipses to nil?
> >> 
> >> (setq-default selective-display-ellipses nil) doesn't remove ellipses.
> >> What am I missing?
> >
> > Ah, it only works when selective-display is turned on.
> >
> > We could perhaps extend it to affect ellipsis after text hidden by
> > properties and overlays.  Would that be helpful?
> >
> > Alternatively, we could fix the documentation to clarify that this
> > variable doesn't affect text hidden by invisible properties.
> 
> What about simply changing the buffer-invisibility-spec?

I'm not following: how is that question related to what
selective-display-ellipses does (or does not do)?