Re: face vs. mouse-face text property

[Chong Yidong]

Michael Heerdegen <address@hidden> writes:

> My question is: is this a bug, or intended behavior?  If it is intended,
> why, and is there a way to get the mouse highlighting nevertheless work
> or to override the default behavior?  In my scenario, it is important
> that the mouse-face works also for strings consisting of newlines, to
> indicate that it's clickable text.

>From my understanding, the mouse-face highlighting only triggers when
the cursor is over a text character glyph, but this should not be a
fundamental limitation, and is something we could change in future
releases.  I suggest filing a bug report.