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(WIP) [PATCH] Prettify page separators.

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From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, 77544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77544: (WIP) [PATCH] Prettify page separators.
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 23:24:54 -0600

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  77544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2025 12:08:02 -0600
> >
> > Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >  Nothing to add to your comments ATM, but maybe an alternative idea: how
> >  about solving this with a new type of display property for drawing a
> >  horizontal line? Say `horizontal-line WIDTH' where WIDTH could be nil or
> >  something to draw a line to the end of the display area? That would have
> >  the advantage that it would be a relatively locally confined change and
> >  would have no impact when not used, and hopefully little potential to
> >  break unrelated things when not used.
> >
> > I like this idea.
> >
> >  One would have to have some Lisp though that puts the display property
> >  on form-feeds.
> >
> > In this case I would move this code to Lisp instead of C.
>
> A new kind of display property must be implemented in C.  The rest of
> the code can be in Lisp.
>

I meant to make that form feed characters use the new display property.

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