Re: Question about display engine

[Ergus]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 10:59:47AM +0200, martin rudalics wrote:
> > I only want a uniform behavior between gui and tui. Because bigger
> > changes I have understand that are close to impossible.
>
> Such uniform behavior should be a major goal.
>
> > Reproduce in TUI the gui behavior as is now by default but:
> >
> > 1) With a not-extend-by-default policy
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here: not-extend-by-default in TUI only or
> not-extend-by-default everywhere?
>
> > 3) Add an extra face to extend (like in my previous code) that needs to
> > be merged with the last face in the line conditionally and can be used
> > in case the user wants extend but removing the underline and keeping
> > the background color (for example).
>
> I suppose this extra face would be suppressed for the region or
> for tooltips.
tooltips yes, not needed for the region. Actually the region is it's
main use case to enable a simple customization when the user wants to
extend only the color but not underlined. (To have an idea about this
extra face give a look how I use it in my initial row patch.)

> martin