bug#27930: 24.5; The underline of hyperlink text is unbounded

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 27930 + notabug
close 27930
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: hw <huwei9527@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:43:42 +0800
>>
>>
>> When I reference to Info node with "C-x h handle-switch-frame RET",
>> I get the *Help* buffer poped up. The first line shows:
>>
>> handle-switch-frame is an interactive built-in function in `C source
>> code'
>>
>> The text "C source code" above is a hyperlink so it is blue with
>> underline, but the underline extend to the right edge of
>> the buffer window, which I think should stop at the end line right
>> after the text "source". So the text above in my text teminal looks
>> like this:
>>
>> <left>                 <mid>                   <right>
>> XXXX function in `____________________________________
>> ___'.
>
> I think this is expected on a TTY: the face of the last character is
> extended all the way to the end of the window.  That's how Emacs was
> designed to work in this case.

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:55:00 +0200
>> From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
>> CC: huwei9527@gmail.com, 27930@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>>  >> But it works the same way on a GUI frame.
>>  >
>>  > Not here, it doesn't.  Maybe there's some kind of misunderstanding.
>>
>> Indeed.  A similar problem on a GUI occurs with the following
>> customization:
>>
>> (custom-set-faces
>>   '(button ((t (:background "#D8D0C8" :box (:line-width 2 :color 
>> "grey72")))))
>>   '(highlight ((t (:inherit button :box (:line-width 2 :style 
>> released-button))))))
>
> Yes, that's the intended behavior of :box.

According to the above, this all works as expected.  I'm therefore
closing this as notabug.

If that's incorrect, please reopen.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas