Re: Question about display engine

[martin rudalics]

> Please. Could you give me how to reproduce this issue?? Maybe I could
> fix it too. (if there is not a reason for having this as is, of course)

M-x customize-face RET region RET C-x h

Here there are two areas painted with yellow3 background instead of
the region's blue3.  I see no particular reason for that behavior.

>> Maybe also the :extend attribute of the default face should show up as
>> "On" by default but I wouldn't even know where to specify that.
>>
> I didn't for two reasons. 1) In the merge process the default face is
> used to initialize always the vector, so it is not needed to set it
> :extend t. But also many other faces (specially in extern packages)
> inherit from default and then set other attributes in their faces so all
> of them will need to be changed... to behave correctly... so better not
> to change the default face in my opinion... What do you think?

I think that you are right.  Maybe we should leave a note in a
doc-string or in *info* about that fact.

martin