Re: Question about display engine

[martin rudalics]

>> But AFAIU the actual merging rules now will create a new face (if not
>> there already) that will have the new background
>
> No.  At the point which we are discussing, only background of faces
> which have the :extend bit set get merged.  So the background of a
> face without that bit will simply not get merged.

It will have to get merged for text that appears _before_ the newline
character.

martin