From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:38:11 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ; * etc/NEWS: Minor copyedits of a recently changed entry. X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.0.90~390 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f9c016a52a396cce9e0f1cc2ee35b0524d917ef;p=emacs.git ; * etc/NEWS: Minor copyedits of a recently changed entry. --- diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index acc9ddc398e..923890decf7 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -437,8 +437,8 @@ to 'completion-styles' or 'completion-category-overrides' to use it. ** The 'completion-common-part' face is now visible by default. +++ -** New face attribute ':extend' to control face extension at EOL. The -new face attribute ':extend' controls whether to use the face for +** New face attribute ':extend' to control face extension at EOL. +The new face attribute ':extend' controls whether to use the face for displaying the empty space beyond end of line (EOL) till the edge of the window. By default, this attribute is non-nil only for a small number of faces, notably, 'region'; any other face that crosses end of @@ -447,10 +447,10 @@ to make Emacs behave more like other GUI applications with respect to displaying faces that cross line boundaries. This attribute behaves specially when theme definitions are applied: -if the theme doesn't specify an explicit value for a face, the value -from the original face definition is inherited. Consequently, a theme -generally shouldn't specify this attribute unless it has a good reason -to do so. +if the theme doesn't specify an explicit value of this attribute for a +face, the value from the original face definition is inherited. +Consequently, a theme generally shouldn't specify this attribute +unless it has a good reason to do so. ** Connection-local variables