From 4cb582321a2079527dbcf496763ec41cddf63b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:58:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ; * etc/NEWS: Elaborate the entry about ':extend' face attribute. --- etc/NEWS | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 819637b79fc..7e86ccc71e3 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -422,8 +422,15 @@ to 'completion-styles' or 'completion-category-overrides' to use it. 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 'region', -'secondary-selection', 'hl-line' and diff faces; any other face that -crosses end of line will not affect the display of the empty space at EOL. +'secondary-selection', 'hl-line' and some faces of Diff and Ediff +modes; any other face that crosses end of line will not affect the +display of the empty space at EOL. This is to make Emacs behave more +like other GUI applications with respect to displaying faces that +cross line boundaries. + +Themes that redefine faces should add a non-nil ':extend' attribute to +the above-mentioned faces, to keep the behavior of the default face +definitions. ** Connection-local variables -- 2.39.5